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There's a nice description/example of the 95th percentil usage calculation on uunet's page in the burstable access section at http://www.uu.net/ca/products/uudirect/burstable/ On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > [ On Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 12:13:34 (-0400), Andy Dills wrote: ] > > Subject: Re: What does 95th %tile mean? > > > > Everything makes sense until the last line. "Calculating the total in and > > out octets" could imply either max or sum, so it probably depends on the > > contract, which seems to be the bottom line to this thread anyhow. > > When I see the words "total" and "and" used like that it can only mean > that addition is the operation of choice. > > Inserting the missing word "of" in there might help: > > Calculating the total of in and out octets ... > > -- Sebastien Berube Systems Administrator [email protected] "Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?"
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