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RE: What does 95th %tile mean?


From: Charles Sprickman <spork () inch com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:52:39 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:

Neither MRTG nor Cricket (nor anything with RRDtool or anything similar
underlying it), in their standard released form, are truly suitable for
accounting purposes since they both can introduce additional averaging
errors.  You need to keep all of the original sample data.

This actually works pretty well:

http://www.seanadams.com/95/

There was a very similar discussion just weeks ago on the datacenter
mailinglist as well, you all might want to peek at the archives...

Charles

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