[38314] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 95th Percentile again (was RE: C&W Peering Problem?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nipper, Arnold)
Sun Jun 3 12:05:10 2001
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From: "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold@nipper.de>
To: "Joe Abley" <jabley@automagic.org>,
"Geoff Huston" <gih@telstra.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 18:04:32 +0200
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Geoff,
> (My previous comments a month or so back about the inaccuracies inherant
in
> 95% systems still apply - given a particular (extreme case) traffic load
> pattern it is possible for two measurement systems that are not phase
> locked, using precisely the same sampling technique and computation to
> deliver outcome values for the 95% point where one is up to twice the
value
> of the other. )
>
>
my heart I can't see how the 95% relates to twice the value. More general
how would it look like for n, whereby 0 < n < 1?
--Arnold
