4 Jun
2001
4 Jun
'01
8:17 a.m.
But peak vs non-peak has little to do with 95th percentile. Assuming that every day's traffic patterns are the same (which is rarely true, there is
My nybble's worth: 95th percentile is usually based on a 5 minute average, and when you have a lot of upstream bandwidth you can move a lot of data quickly and it barely shows in a graph/monitoring system doing 'mrtg' style 5 minute samples. It's better than nothing, and identifies 'hogs' quickly. Because of the large amount of 'business hours' users we have, I've made some special deals to some 'off-hour' bandwidth hogs because of the available and unused bandwidth during those hours. --Mike--