Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Checked in statistics menu, 3rd proposal

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:26:37 +0100
Ian Schorr wrote:


Could you give some examples, what you are doing with it, so we could find a good name through this approach.

A few things I do:

- Generate response time statistics over time (average, max vs. average, etc.
- Plot comparison graphs of distribution of call types (or just about any other filterable information)
- Plot client LOAD statistics/number of outstanding requests in a given time interval
- Watch for "excessive" broadcasts/multicasts
- Etc.

Hmm, doesn't sound to me giving some better way of naming :-(

Traffic Graph
Filtered Graph
User Specified Graph (my favorite!)

Out of these I like "Traffic Graph" the best ("Filtered" isn't accurate, I can build graphs without applying any sort of filter, and "User Specified Graph" rolls off the tongue like "Human-Intended Drafting Surface" describes "desk" =) , though I'm not sure how any of these (or "Generic Graph" =) are any more specific than "IO Graphs".

The problem I see with "IO Graphs" is simply that the user will think about "what special IO they are talking about".

Beside that, it seems to be the best alternative for this, as no really better name seems to be available.

I will change it to "IO Graphs" and this should be ok for this release.

Regards, ULFL