[smokeping-users] The Smoke

[Thomas Klein]

Hello,

is there a more detailed explanation available how SmokePing does draw 
the smoke into the graphs?
I have looked into "Reading the Graphs" from the documentation, but miss 
some details:

For every round of measurement smokeping sends several packets. It then 
sorts the different round trip times and selects the median, (ie. the 
middle one). This means when there are 10 time values, value number 5 is 
selected and drawn. The other values are drawn as successively lighter 
shades of gray in the background (smoke).

How can i find out what the smoke will look for such example values 
where the median will be always 5?

Nr. 	Val1 	Val2 	Val3 	Val4 	Val5
1 	1 	1 	5 	4 	1
2 	2 	2 	5 	5 	1
3 	3 	5 	5 	5 	1
4 	4 	5 	5 	5 	1
5 	5 	5 	5 	5 	5
6 	6 	5 	5 	5 	5
7 	7 	5 	5 	9 	5
8 	8 	5 	5 	9 	5
9 	9 	5 	9 	9 	5
10 	10 	5 	10 	9 	5


I have noted that my latency measurements tend to have more smoke above 
the median measurement than below and wonder what this does mean and how 
to interprete the graphs.

Greetings,
Thomas
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