RE: What does 95th %tile mean?

[Charles Sprickman <spork () inch com>]

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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