The Lazy writer thread is responsible for writing objects' state in its persistent form. A wpSaveDeferred results in an object subsequently being processed by this thread. When the Lazy writer thread stores an object, it will call _wpSaveState. This thread does not have a PM message queue. Synchronization is controlled by event semaphores that are signaled from various other threads. The Lazy writer thread detects periods of file system inactivity, as well as other heuristics, and at such times performs actions such as:


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