Re: What does 95th %tile mean?

[Shawn McMahon <smcmahon () eiv com>]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:03:02AM +1000, Geoff Huston wrote:
> Depending on the synchronization between the burst pattern and the sampling 
> system, and the sampling technique itself, the 95% reading can be zero, 
> half the line rate, or the line rate, and all answers are equally valid in 
> some sense.

They don't take a one-second sample every five minutes, they take the
five-minute average rate measured by their router.

Unless they're insane, or their routers don't support that.  I dunno who
makes routers that don't support that, though.

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