On Sep 17, 2013, at 4:18 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:44:22AM -0400, Doug Hughes wrote: >> Oh, and P95/P99 distributions (commonly used for billing by network >> carriers on MPLS) > > If you're only paying attention to p95/p99 in relation to network you're > likely to be missing interesting and useful information. > e.g. knowing that on average a user gets a page returned in 2 seconds is > great, but if your p95 is out in the 30 second region that's a number of > potentially unhappy users. > I'd see the ideal goal as getting your mean as low as possible *and* your > p95/p99 as close to your mean as possible :)
>From my experience p95/p99 data is about consumption not latency/performance >metrics. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
