Re: [Ethereal-dev] Checked in statistics menu, 3rd proposal

[Ulf Lamping]

Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Schorr"
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Checked in statistics menu, 3rd proposal

 

I'd strongly disagree with IO stat being renamed "Throughput" since
   

"throughput" is only one of quite a few statistics that can be extracted
from it.
 

I'm not sure that I have a better name for it, though.  "IO Stats" seems
   

very accurate to me, though perhaps unintuitive (it seems fine to me, but
perhaps that's because I'm familiar with the tool)?
 

Ian
   



Maybe we should call it "LOAD (and other graphs)" :-)
 

Sounds a bit ugly for a menu item ;-)

I have to agree.   Throughput is really the wrong word.

Many people daily use this feature to plot how LOAD changes over time.
Many people use it daily to plot how MIN/MAX/AVG service response times
changes over time
Nothing at all to do with throughput.
 

... and even that sounds to me like getting only one of many possible 
"use cases"

What about switching to a real *generic* name like:

"Multi Purpose Graph"
"User Specified Graph"
"Generic Graph"
"Graph" ;-)
"Progression Graph"
"Line Graph"
As far as I understand that different people use it for very different 
tasks, so no specific name will be appropriate?

Regards, ULFL

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