What does 95th %tile mean?

Thu Apr 19 18:12:56 UTC 2001


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 ...
> 
> 

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