The tail latency of a system is the upper part of its latency distribution, reported as high percentiles: the 99th (p99), the 99.9th (p99.9), the maximum over a period. Jitter is the variability of latency from one occurrence to the next, reported as a spread (p99 minus p50, or a standard deviation); a system with low jitter is one whose tail is close to its median.
ll_budget.composition, 400 000 simulated messages.bench_path.py.