[88980] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 95th percentile - the sociology study.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Mon Feb 27 17:24:09 2006
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:21:51 -0800
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com>
To: Bill Nash <billn@odyssey.billn.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> > 1 tried to convince me that modern equipment can't handle being sampled
> > more often than every 5 minutes.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:45:18PM -0500, Bill Nash wrote:
> I hope you disabused him/her of this notion.
I didn't try to disabuse anyone of any notion - other than the fact that I
didn't need help implementing 95th percentile - in hopes that they would
answer the survey. Even without trying to answer I ended up in far too
many conversations :-(
> Note: If you're small enough that you're still using MRTG, you can likely
> just ignore everything I just wrote.
Er... MRTG out of the box. Some people have extended MRTG/rrdtool usage
extensively. You can get a lot of use out of RRDTool if you are willing to
write your own tools to (ab)use it.
But yes, generally true ;-)
--
Jo Rhett
senior geek
SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation
