What is the size of a GMail inbox now, and in the near future?

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Joe Chung — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:47:20 GMT

gmail.com isn't open yet, is it?

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tzagotta — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:27:04 GMT

Cool analysis!

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Ron Krauter — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:34:36 GMT

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Would this query in realtime the server? Surprise, no! The counter is actually a "fake" one.
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Not at all lame...if it was done in real time, it would turn out to be a perf problem for them so they probably decided to precalculate the values.

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VSIDE — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 03:07:27 GMT

Pretty cool stuff. My math might be off, but I think 3GB = 3072MB and since they're growing at 100MB/month, won't they actually reach 3GB about one week into Feb. 2006?
-Jon
(p.s. please help me improve file tabs for Visual Studio 2007: http://blogs.msdn.com/vside/archive/2005/08/24/455998.aspx)

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AdiOltean — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 03:11:52 GMT

You are right, Jon. I "rounded" 2950 MB by 3 GB.

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max — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:44:37 GMT

Actually the formula is not at random, it takes the last know size (i-1) it subtracts the next known one (the further step) and then it divides it by the time already elapsed since the last know size went live.
Basically is a linear progression updated once a second to give the impression that the storage is continuosly getting added.
The rate at wich the number changes is just a factor of the 2 sizes involved and the 2 dates (both in the CP array).

I agree that it is lame and useless, might as well just post the fixed number and maybe have a backend routine form time to time (like days) update the script with it.

Well, if a company that lives on advertising does false advertising .... well.

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AdiOltean — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:27:18 GMT

Correct - initially I thought that it's random but then I figured out the linear interpolation trick.

I think that whoever wrote this code did this intentionally so that the code can be easily "hacked".

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