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

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ian Schorr"
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 7:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Checked in statistics menu, 3rd proposal
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> > I'd strongly disagree with IO stat being renamed "Throughput" since
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> "throughput" is only one of quite a few statistics that can be extracted
> from it.
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> > I'm not sure that I have a better name for it, though.  "IO Stats" seems
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> very accurate to me, though perhaps unintuitive (it seems fine to me, but
> perhaps that's because I'm familiar with the tool)?
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> > Ian
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> Maybe we should call it "LOAD (and other graphs)" :-)
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Sounds a bit ugly for a menu item ;-)

> I have to agree.   Throughput is really the wrong word.
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> Many people daily use this feature to plot how LOAD changes over time.
> Many people use it daily to plot how MIN/MAX/AVG service response times
> changes over time
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> Nothing at all to do with throughput.
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... and even that sounds to me like getting only one of many possible 
"use cases"

What about switching to a real *generic* name like:

"Multi Purpose Graph"
"User Specified Graph"
"Generic Graph"
"Graph" ;-)
"Progression Graph"
"Line Graph"

As far as I understand that different people use it for very different 
tasks, so no specific name will be appropriate?

Regards, ULFL