Kevin Rose Load Tests Gmail

SishGupta writes "Load Testing Gmail - fillmybox@gmail.com A few weeks ago, Kevin Rose of the The Screen Savers decided to load test Google's new email service, Gmail. He asked everyone to email him their favourite 5MB attachments to 'fillmybox@gmail.com.' The test Gmail account is now 102% maxed out. You can read about the test and the results at Kevin Rose.com (his weblog)."

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Real Results

[WhatsAProGingrass]

Come on, lets here the good stuff.

Lets here the statistics on how much porn and what types of porn you got.

On a serious note, a lot of people would say that "nobody uses email like that". But what they don't realize is that, we will if we could. Wouldn't it be nice to advertise like that on tv and not worry about how much people mail you. Like "America's funnies home videos" or something similar, send in your video at blah@somewhere.com. It would be nice to get mass amounts of video in emails like that.

Re:Slashdot Load Tests Kevin Rose's Web Server

[magic fruit]

not wanting to be a killjoy or anything, but attempting to break gmail without their permission is a denial of service attack. am i wrong? either way, lucky that google didn't get mad about it! 1GB + bounced mail to a single account in a short amount of time must have had a performance hit on the servers holding that account and maybe affected other accounts that used the same servers.