There are tons of posts on reddit by ordinary users complaining about their transaction being delayed for many hours. They are mostly those who who just let their wallet app choose the transaction fee. It happens that the stress test is now using standard and maybe above-standard fees.
Luckily, this is a (pedagogical?) test, not an attack. Thus, clients who have read the source code of the core implementation (and are aware of the modifications and parameter choices made by the major miners and relay nodes) can easily compute the fee that will let their transaction go through in the next N blocks, provided only that they correctly guess what fees will be paid by the 20'000 x N transactions that will be issued by the testers in the next 10 x N minutes, and also by the 800 x N transactions that will be issued by ordinary clients who want to get their transactions in front of the queue.
For example, half an hour ago the fee to get into one of the next 12 blocks was 4.5 US cents, but then the testers paused to catch their breath, and now it is only 2.6 cents or so. Hurry up before they resume, perhaps by raising their fees.
Apparently, the total cost of this stress test so far has been ~30 BTC yesterday, and ~20 BTC today, not counting the "payload" (output amounts) that is ultimately being donated to Wikileaks, charities, and known "public fountain" addresses. That is ~15'000 USD, which is about three times Coinwallet's originally declared budget (5000 euros). Their peak transaction issuance rate, according to statoshi.info, was over 100 tx per second (the actual capacity of the network being ~2.7 tx/s).
Now imagine what a *malicious* spam attack fould do with that sort of budget...