Gulliver's toss: Google's chronic big load to university mail server and its sudden resolution

Yoshiaki Kasahara; Eisuke Ito; Naomi Fujimura

doi:10.1145/2504776.2504815

Gulliver's toss: Google's chronic big load to university mail server and its sudden resolution

Yoshiaki Kasahara, Eisuke Ito, Naomi Fujimura

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Abstract

Traditionally, Kyushu University has been providing email service internally using its own domain name for staff members and students of the university. Around January 2012, we noticed that the high load of the university authentication server, and we realized that one of causes was the access from the mail server for students (called Student Primary Mail Service). Detailed analysis showed that there was chronic big load produced by Gmail's Mail Fetcher, especially toward nonexistent accounts removed due to graduation. In this paper, we explain the situation and reasons of the big load induced by Google, its possible countermeasures, and its sudden resolution by Google's silent change.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SIGUCCS 2013 - Proceedings of the ACM Annual Conference on Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services
Pages	169-174
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2504776.2504815
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	50th ACM Annual Conference on Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services, SIGUCCS 2013 - Chicago, IL, United States Duration: Nov 3 2013 → Nov 8 2013

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Name	Proceedings ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference

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Other	50th ACM Annual Conference on Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services, SIGUCCS 2013
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago, IL
Period	11/3/13 → 11/8/13

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Information Systems
Education
Computer Science Applications

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Kasahara, Y., Ito, E., & Fujimura, N. (2013). Gulliver's toss: Google's chronic big load to university mail server and its sudden resolution. In SIGUCCS 2013 - Proceedings of the ACM Annual Conference on Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (pp. 169-174). (Proceedings ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference). https://doi.org/10.1145/2504776.2504815

Gulliver's toss: Google's chronic big load to university mail server and its sudden resolution. / Kasahara, Yoshiaki ; Ito, Eisuke; Fujimura, Naomi.
SIGUCCS 2013 - Proceedings of the ACM Annual Conference on Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services. 2013. p. 169-174 (Proceedings ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Kasahara, Y , Ito, E & Fujimura, N 2013, Gulliver's toss: Google's chronic big load to university mail server and its sudden resolution. in SIGUCCS 2013 - Proceedings of the ACM Annual Conference on Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services. Proceedings ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference, pp. 169-174, 50th ACM Annual Conference on Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services, SIGUCCS 2013, Chicago, IL, United States, 11/3/13. https://doi.org/10.1145/2504776.2504815

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