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- From: Pasha Quadri <quadri@last-call.cisco.com>
- Subject: Re: X.25 line utilization???
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 21 Aug 92 08:47:57 -0500
- Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.2.715033652.quadri@last-call.cisco.com>
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- Date: 28 Aug 92 13:27:32 PDT
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- >
- > Hi,
- >
- > I have some statistics I have been gathering from one of my packet
- > switch nodes within my company's private X.25 network. I have been
- > monitoring the incoming and outgoing bit/sec data rates between
- > Richardson Texas and Stockholm Sweden.
- >
- > We have a full duplex communications link capable of 112
- > kilobits/sec of data throughput. We have recently gotten into a
- > quarrel over what the utilization of the link is.
- >
- > Here is the scenario. My statistics tell me that I have the
- > following:
- >
- > 40,000 bits/sec input data rate
- > 60,000 bits/sec output data rate
- >
- > I think that the utilization of our line during this time (expressed
- > as a percentage) is ((40,000 + 60,000)/112000) * 100%
- >
- > while some others here think that the utilization of our line
- > (expressed as a percentage) is gotten by taking the higher of the
- > two data rate figures and dividing that by the maximum data rate, or
- > (60,000/112000)*100%.
- >
- > Does anyone have any input on which is the right way to express the
- > utilization of our link? Any input would be appreciated.
- >
- > Blake Holman
- > Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.
- > Richardson, Texas
- > (214) 997-6784
- >
-
-
- Hello Blake,
-
- Since serial lines are full duplex dividing by the bandwidth of the link
- will just not work. Hence greater of either input OR output bytes, bits, or
- packets per second be taken and divided by the BW of the link.
-
- One of our Engineers had written an article on this and a formula for
- average utilization was :
-
- average utilization = [(bytes-input OR bytes-output) * 8] / ifSpeed
-
- The OR above denotes a case where you should take the larger
- of the input and output values to divide by the bandwidth (ifSpeed) to
- determine the true link utilization.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
-
- Regards
-
- Pasha Quadri
- cisco Cust.Engg
-