From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 19 19: 9:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cs.rpi.edu (mumble.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.8.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C21E537B421 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:09:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monica.cs.rpi.edu (monica.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.7.3]) by cs.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA19849 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:09:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from monica.cs.rpi.edu (crossd@localhost) by monica.cs.rpi.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5K297R14456 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:09:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from crossd@monica.cs.rpi.edu) Message-Id: <200206200209.g5K297R14456@monica.cs.rpi.edu> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: projects? Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:09:07 -0400 From: "David E. Cross" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a graduate student who cam to me about a masters project involving some work with FreeBSD. He has currently zero knowledge of the Kernel, and is looking to change that, but he needs ideas. His previous areas of interest are primarily focused on networking; RED/GRED/ECN, routing, etc. He is however "quite sick" of networking, and was originally looking at the VM code as a potential area (he is gaining an interest in parallelization and synchronization). I suggested this may be too ambitious for someone with zero previous exposure to the kernel (what do others think?) As alternate projects I suggested: Memory Compaction: compacting physical memory, maintaining coloring VFS: nullfs, unionfs, etc... OpenAFS: Speaks for itself. What do people here think? Anyone have other ideas that I can forward on? He is eager to work with others and seek guidance; some of which I can provide (how much depends on the project of course ;). (He is looking to spend 2 hours a day for roughly 6 months on this project; ideally he would want a project where he can gather data on the results, most of my projects do not fall into that category). -- David Cross | email: crossd@cs.rpi.edu Lab Director | Rm: 308 Lally Hall Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, | Ph: 518.276.2860 Department of Computer Science | Fax: 518.276.4033 I speak only for myself. | WinNT:Linux::Linux:FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message