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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