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Systems debugging
May 12, 2026 4 min

You cannot average percentiles

Finding an IMAP server's real capacity means driving load from many hosts at once. The hard part isn't generating the load. It's combining their latencies into one honest P99 without lying about it.

#imap#benchmarking#statistics#performance

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