User:Popescu.andrei1991
Personal Info
Hello, my name is Andrei - Constantin Popescu, I usually go by Andrei. I am a second year undergraduate at Polytechnic University of Bucharest,studying at the computer science department.
Contact
I can usually be found on IRC on #brlcad - freenode, I have various nicknames, depending on availablity : andrei, andrei_, andrei__. The quickest way to reach me on e-mail is the address: popescu.andrei1991@gmail.com - I read emails on this several times a day. My github account is : https://github.com/pandrei
I will use this page to keep track of my progress on a daily basis.
Project Summary
Firstly, here can be found my official proposal. https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/popescuandrei/4002
The purpose of a package managing library ( or tool) is to pass around packages containing data from brlcad tools. The packages are sent via TCP and as a result are using TCP header. TCP -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol
My current knowledge is that the TCP Payload[1] has a size of 64kb, at least in the linux kernel. There has been a reported incident where libpkg fails to send 24k+ packages. [1] Payload - TCP field containinig effective data (user data, for example).
I believe this is the reported incident : http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.brlcad.devel/959.
Tpkg will be used for testing the package issue. I am currently researching dstat and ifstat, found via apt-cache search ifstat dstat - versatile resource statistics tool ifstat - InterFace STATistics Monitoring
The curent state of brlcad libpkg is a basic client-server protocol.
GsoC 2012 progress
So far I have managed to compile and install brl-cad on a 32-bit Archlinux. I am focusing on the tpkg command to see what exactly happens and properly submitting the global removal patch.
Daily development log
21th May - 8th of June - exams period, minor work on tpkg patch and on the red - black tree test unit.
9th June - working on obtaining commit access asap. Currently developing the performance shell script.
10-11th June - not much work , documenting regarding bash programming.
12-13th June -finishing the shell script, applying feedback given by Erik on the tpkg parameter patch.
14th June - submitting the final version of the shell script.
15-17th of June - learning K&R indentation, learning about POSIX. Finishing the tpkg script and the tpkg.c modifications.
18th of June - unsuccesful attempts to sync the server and client ( To start the client only after server started) using signal handling, docummenting about signal handling
19th of June - unsuccesful attempts to achieve the above by using inter-process communications, understanding thread concepts, docummenting about the basics of fork() , pthreads_
20th of June - sync the server with the client by using a loop to detect a key string (while "Server_ready" isn't found in the log_file the client does not start. Having issues with redirecting output from a background process
21th of June - finished tpkg script for localhost ( both client and server are on the same machine), developing the remote one. (Using two different machines)
