[GLLUG] Swapin in iotop

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 04:03:48PM +0000, Hearns, John wrote:
> Use the Source Luke, use the Source.
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> 
> 	/* Delay waiting for page fault I/O (swap in only) */
> 	__u64	swapin_count;
> 	__u64	swapin_delay_total;
> 
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> 
> The contents of this email are confidential and for the exclusive use of the intended recipient.  If you receive this email in error you should not copy it, retransmit it, use it or disclose its contents but should return it to the sender immediately and delete your copy.

Hmmmmm - what are you doing quoting a bit of GPL code and attempting to restrict
who I can distribute it to by saying that it is confidential ? Is this not an
attempt at GPL violation ?

OK: I know that your lawyer droids have probably forced you to have the above
brain-dead email notice, but these damn things annoy me.

I had great fun with a bank a couple of years ago, trying to send me a contract
by email:

1) is this contract not supposed to be confidential ? So why are you sending it
   by unecrypted email ?

2) the email footnote said something about the contents of the email being the
   opinion of the writer and would in no way be something that the bank could be
   held to.

I pointed this out and said that she ought to remove that from the email
footnote before I could even think of accepting it. This caused confusion, she
had never read the email footnote.

In the end I accepted something in a letter.

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