Google+ runs out of disk space, floods inboxes with notification spam

If you’re one of the lucky ones who landed themselves a Google+ account, you might have felt a little less fortunate when your inbox was bombarded by repeated notifications. Vic Gundotra , the Goog’s social mastermind, took to the fledgling service to apologize and explain what happened. Turns out the servers in charge of tracking notifications ran out of disk space for about 80 minutes — causing them to repeatedly send and resend the same messages. In his Plus posting Gundotra admitted, “we didn’t expect to hit these high thresholds so quickly, but we should have.” Sure, it may have been annoying to get 17 alerts that your old college roommate added you to his circles, but we’ve got to give credit to Vic for owning this mini fail. The company better hope it can scale up capacity quick — Google+ invites are still a hot property and it’s got a lot of growing to do before it can truly compete with the likes of Facebook. Filed under: Internet Google+ runs out of disk space, floods inboxes with notification spam originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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