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On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> > We could also give the imprecise numbers to unprivileged
> > users and let privileged ones see the page-level ones.
>
> That also sounds like a good idea.

Uhh... Another source of confusions for the uninitiated.