Wednesday Arnold Nipper wrote: > On 13.04.2005 05:35 Jason D. Hammerschmidt wrote > > >>> This is going to be a really dumb question, but can someone explain > >>> to me > >>> the relevance of the light/dark gray entries on the smokeping graphs? > >>> Is > >>> this the variance over the 20 requests? > >> Actually it's not really the variance but all of the n values scattered > >> around the median. > > > > Excellent question actually, but I am confused about the answer. If > > it's variance around the median, why do so many of my graphs show grey > > lines skewed on only one side? Usually upwards? If it was around the > > median, should it be grey on both sides of the main coloured bar? Or > > does that represent something different? > > > > Imho that may only happen when the set of ping results consists of only > two values. The lower one is the coloured line and you have exactly one > grey shadow above. In any other case you should have grey shadows on > *both* sides of the coloured line.
assume you have the following values 5,5,5,5,5,8,9,10,11 then the median is 5 ... and you will see grey only above ... this is actually quite a normal behaviour ... since pakets seldom travel faster, than normal ... only slower ... cheers tobi > > > > Arnold > > -- > Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/smokeping-users > WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi > -- ______ __ _ /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker @ ISG.EE, ETL F24.2, ETH, CH-8092 Zurich / // _ \/ _ \/ / System Manager, Time Lord, Coder, Designer, Coach /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker +41(0)44-632-5286 -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/smokeping-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
