Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:17:45 +0000 From: =?UTF-8?B?5YiY5pm654y3?= <liuzhiyou.cs@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: "theraven@freebsd.org" <theraven@freebsd.org> Subject: GSoC 2015: Memory compression Message-ID: <CAM_nUzbmro7nXaTFRUumLHbTAiEDw34cOSszMpcK--ZhEDfeVA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAM_nUzb%2BF4CynrM6mD3ziL_ZE2v4uZ1CBQiKpELktDOmpKggKg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAM_nUzb%2BF4CynrM6mD3ziL_ZE2v4uZ1CBQiKpELktDOmpKggKg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi hackers, I am a CS master student from Peking University and interesting in FreeBSD's GSoC, especially the memory compression idea. I had some experience of kernel development and debugging from my previous RedHat kernel QA internship and MIT 6.828 course project JOS which requires to implement a unix-like single processor OS. Though I don't have much experience of FreeBSD but I have the intention and the passion to improve my knowledge during this project. Here is a few things I want to ask, 1. Is this project still available/incomplete? I ask this because I noticed some ideas listed in the summer of code ideas page have been finished in previous GSoC. 2. I think the first step of this project could be reserving some memory space as in-memory swap and we 'swap' the less used page to it. Is that sounds like a plan to you? If so, I would make a prototype of it in FreeBSD in the next few days to get my hand dirty. P.S. I had sent an identical email to theraven@, just forwarding it here. It would be great if I could get your helps and advises. Sincerely, Zhiyou
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