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Re: What does 95th %tile mean?

  • From: Arnold Nipper
  • Date: Fri Apr 20 10:34:08 2001
  • >received: by gateway.nipper.de (Postfix, from userid 500)id 7F76A1E6CE; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:25:06 +0200 (CEST)
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:57:55AM -0400, Alex Pilosov wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 [email protected] wrote:
> 
> c) bingo. Each of your providers will remove highest 95th percentile (1.5
> days worth of traffic) and only bill you for minimal utilization. 
> 

But it's likely that 30 x minimal utilization is far more than one time all
the traffic. Bingo! Perfect shot! Not taking into account 30 x the hardware
and 30 x maintenance ...

> 
> -alex
> 

Arnold
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