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168 | | - Smoothed checkpoints prevent checkpoint I/O spikes |
| 168 | + Checkpoint writes can be spread over a longer time period to smooth |
| 169 | + the I/O spike during each checkpoint |
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689 | | - Smoothed checkpoints prevent checkpoint I/O spikes (Itagaki |
690 | | - Takahiro and Heikki Linnakangas) |
| 690 | + Checkpoint writes can be spread over a longer time period to smooth |
| 691 | + the I/O spike during each checkpoint (Itagaki Takahiro and Heikki |
| 692 | + Linnakangas) |
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