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
21st of June - finished tpkg script for localhost ( both client and server are on the same machine), developing the remote one. (Using two different machines)
22nd of June - getting some hints from #bash, reading about ssh, working on the ssh remote script(password-less ssh login process). Having issues with the ssh session not exiting properly.
23rd of June - script finished, full functional started script on two machines setting up log files / reading a bit about sampling necessary for graphic( how many points are enough )
24th - 25th of June - scripts running time, realized I could have done them a lot better and faster. No notable work done in these days. ( a script using small files ran twice and one using large files( up to 700 mb ) ran once.
26th of June the total dimension for the log files was 8.4Gb on server machine as well as on client ( minor difference) purging the files from irrelevant data. read about sed and awk. Compared the first two tests( which use identical parameters) and found no notable difference. Starting to read about and write the octave script. Reading about interpolation and how can I use it if I don t know what points am I missing.
27th of June - asked for some mathematical hints on #octave - freenode. Finished graphs currently without interpolation. Looking up bu_bomb.log but they are empty. Re-run the script for a small number of iterations still found no error.
28th of June - uploading data / TODO
