网络故障导致Gmail出现信息延迟

新华网9月25日电 据科技博客网站Gizmodo报道，Gmail昨天出现邮件发送延迟的问题，谷歌公司发表博客表示延迟原因在于罕见的双网络崩溃，问题很快得到了解决。

在过去的24小时里，有些使用Gmail的用户可能发现自己的邮箱运行有点古怪。这种情况不在少数，Gmail研发团队发布了一篇博文解释了缘由，据称，一种罕见的双网络无序的问题导致了许多邮件在发送时出现了大量的延迟。

据谷歌公司介绍，信息延迟的问题是由罕见的“双网络崩溃”导致的，网络冗余系统昨日早晨停止工作。（谷歌发出的博文显示系统崩溃出现在今天，9月25日，但这肯定是输入有误——只需看看谷歌的Gmail状态栏就知道了。）整个Gmail系统大约29%的邮件出现短暂延迟的现象，其中1.5%的信息延迟时间超过两小时。昨天下午美国东部时间7点，延迟问题才被解除。

1.5%的邮件对谷歌邮件来说只是冰山一角，但对谷歌庞大的网络来说是个大问题。幸好，不止你一个人感到困扰。不过，谷歌快速搞定问题，值得表扬。

译者：张艺

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Your Gmail Was Down Because of a "Dual Network Failure"

Over the last 24 hours, you\'ve probably noticed that your Gmail has been acting a little funky. It wasn\'t just you. In a blog post, the Gmail team explains the issue, saying that a rare, double-SNAFU was to blame for a widespread issue that caused significant delays in the delivery of some email.

According to Google, the message delivery problems were caused by a rare "dual network failure" in which redundant systems stopped working at the same time yesterday morning. (The blog post reports that the failures happened today, September 24, but this is certainly a typo—just refer to Google\'s Gmail status dashboard.) The hiccup caused at least a brief delay in the delivery of about 29 percent of messages across the system, with about 1.5-percent of messages being delayed more than two hours. The problem was cleared by about 7 PM eastern time yesterday.

While 1.5 percent is a very small percentage of Gmail messages, it adds up to a very big problem on Google\'s expansive network. If you felt the pain, you weren\'t alone. Kudos to Google for getting it fixed quickly.