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