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RE: What does 95th %tile mean?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Sprickman)
Fri Apr 20 00:56:21 2001
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:52:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
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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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