argus and 95th percentile

[Rodney McKee]

Carter, 

The value I'm after is based on 5 minute samples of user uploads (inbound traffic) that are sorted highest to lowest then the value at the 95th percent point is then used for our volume calculation. Is their a way to pull the 5 minutes samples like "ragraph -M 5m" using the text "ra" tools? 
I just see the rrdgraph is able to do it but not sure yet how to use it. 

More info on the billing scheme here: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burstable_billing 

----- "Carter Bullard" <carter at qosient.com> wrote: 
> Hey Rodney, 
> When I see '95th percentile', i immediately ask, "of what?". 
> Argus can do a lot of simple stats, and means with standard 
> deviations are really simple for any of the metrics argus 
> supports, but....., there are a lot of them, so are you looking 
> for 95th percentile of flow duration? (just as an example) 
> 
> Carter 
> 
> On Mar 22, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Rodney McKee wrote: 
> 
> > Just wondering what might be the best way to calculate the 95th 
> > percentile out of argus? 
> > 
> > We use several data centers that do billing calculations using this 
> > process. 
> > 
> > Rgds 
> > Rodney 
> > 
> 
> 

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