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Message posted by Gerry Reilly on October 28, 1999 at 12:00 AM (ET)

Need a consise definition of
of 95th percentile. If I have
an objective that states system
response time will be <2 Sec.
at the 95th Percentile.
Does it mean that all I have to
achieve <2 sec. 95% of the time?

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Re: Percentiles
Message posted by JG on October 29, 1999 at 12:00 AM (ET)

Yes that is what it means.

Re: Percentiles
Message posted by nancy diehl on October 29, 1999 at 12:00 AM (ET)

Another way of interpreting the system
response time of 2 sec at the 95th percentile is:
95% of the system response times are
less than or equal to 2 sec.

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