[Bloat] grading bloat better

[Jonathan Morton]

> On 13 Oct, 2016, at 06:22, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I still might quibble, but a trimmed mean makes more sense than just a mean.
> 
> Problem I always have is bloat is biased always towards the end of a test. Here,
> at 1gbit, it took nearly 20 seconds to start going boom. Maybe we need
> to invent a new distribution (The bloat distribution? The TCP
> distribution)...

Perhaps the 90th percentile would be relevant - the median is simply the 50th percentile.  Taking the 90th avoids counting true flukes, but also captures the idea that intermittently high latency is in fact noticeable.

 - Jonathan Morton