From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 23 20:17:10 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D310216A419 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:17:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sanket@cmu.edu) Received: from smtp.andrew.cmu.edu (SMTP.andrew.cmu.edu [128.2.10.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63ABD13C468 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:17:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sanket@cmu.edu) Received: from webmail.andrew.cmu.edu (WEBMAIL11.andrew.cmu.edu [128.2.10.168]) (user=shase mech=GSSAPI (56 bits)) by smtp.andrew.cmu.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l8NJeO5w016554; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:48:58 -0400 Received: from 128.2.140.106 (SquirrelMail authenticated user shase@ANDREW.CMU.EDU); by webmail.andrew.cmu.edu with HTTP; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:48:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4639.128.2.140.106.1190576938.squirrel@128.2.140.106> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:48:58 -0400 (EDT) From: "Sanket Somnath Hase" To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 [CVS] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.60 on 128.2.10.212 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:29:38 +0000 Cc: duppugan@andrew.cmu.edu, chandramouli@cmu.edu Subject: interested in working on freeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:17:10 -0000 Hi Matt , We are graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University. We are enrolled in a course (Operating systems practicum http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/ ) which involves hands-on experience with operating-system code as it is developed and deployed in the real world. Murray Stokley referred us to you. We were thinking of contibuting to FreeBSD.We read through the description of your project "Rewrite the in-kernel file system syncer" and found it interesting.Could you let us know the status of this project? It will be great if you could mention some related readings. We have already taken an operating system design and implementation class (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410/ ) before where we developed a UNIX like kernel from scratch. We have fair experience in reading-coding-debugging kernel code. All three of us interned at core systems group at companies like Google and Oracle in the past summer. Our team can invest 30 hours per week, for a period of 12 weeks of this Fall semester. We are wondering if we can contribute to FreeBSD. It will be great if you could give us some pointers towards such work. Looking forward to hear from you, Thanks, Sanket Hase Chandramouli Rangarajan DilipKumar Uppugandla