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zebracanevra on May 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Free (as in beer) Dynos

Previously, worker dynos never slept. On the new free dynos, you now get a free worker dyno, but the tradeoff is that the app must sleep for 6 hours/day.

Does that sleeping time include the worker dynos? If it does, when do they sleep? Workers can't "timeout" like web dynos can.

petitmiam on May 14, 2015 [–]

The updated help pages only mention the scenario of a worker dyno running along a web dyno.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dyno-types#dyno-sleepi...

It's unclear what happens to apps which just have a single worker dyno. Are we meant to use the scheduler to kill workers for 6 hours a day?

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