For another data point on long-term trends, you can look at
http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Statistics/Size-Distribution/
http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Statistics/Per-Type/
Note that medians (~4.5KB) are usually much lower than means (10.5KB) in
our environment. Recent standard PolyMix workloads reflect that fact,
but you can configure Polygraph to use different size distributions, of
course.
Alex.
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Dancer Vesperman wrote:
> "Low, Ken" wrote:
>
> > Ken
>
> Popular wisdom varies on this. 10.5K was a figure arrived at by some
> statistical analysis I did on a variety of proxy servers some years ago.
> Now, either the character of our special end-user market has changed, or
> the character of the web has, as checking the servers steadily over the
> last year has given us a value of 4.25K, which I personally find very
> odd.
>
> D
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