I/O prefetching system or snort implementation

sriramvcs · 01-26-2009, 12:53 PM

hello everyone
i am sriram, and i am a newbie!
i am currently doing my final year in computer science engineering.
i have couple of ideas for my final year project. I am not able to make the correct choice as am not well versed linux. I have been using fedora 9 for a week now, slowly but steadily getting the hang of it! So please help me make the choice and any suggestions and ideas are most welcome.

skills:- pretty decent with C/C++, JAVA, SQL, perl, and usual CS courses

idea 1: implementing a compiler based I/O pre-fetching system.
complier based pre-fetching mechanism is used for improving the performance of out of core applications i.e applications which use a data set larger than the memory available to them. One such compiler based system has been designed and implemented by Angela Denke Brown at CMU. Her system has been implemented on the hurricane and IRIX OS's. Here the intension is to implement the already existing system on a linux OS.

idea 2: Implementing snort (intrusion detection and prevention tool) for the linux lab at my college.

Please let me know if a newbie like me can understand the OS, get into kernel programming and also complete the project by april. If both these ideas suck, please help me out! thanks a lot.

unSpawn · 01-26-2009, 06:13 PM

Hello and welcome to LQ, hope you like it here.

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Originally Posted by sriramvcs

Please let me know if a newbie like me can understand the OS, get into kernel programming and also complete the project by april.

I think April sounds reasonable. 2013, that is ;-p If you're already pretty decent with C/C++, JAVA, SQL and Perl why the sudden need to get into kernel programming? Why not build something you would love to use yourself and share with others? Good things shouldn't stand out due to complexity of code but simplicity of the idea. But that's just my opinion.

maginotjr · 01-26-2009, 07:28 PM

Good lucky with your project, maybe this could add something to your project:
http://www.iit.bas.bg/PECR/56/78-85.pdf
http://linuxgazette.net/155/krishnakumar.html
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/li...y/l-gcc-hacks/

take a look at this book too Linux System Programming: Talking Directly to the Kernel and C Library, written by Robert Love (ISBN: 0596009585), and here is an article from this book: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/BrainDump...el-on-File-IO/

Well, those are some good articles and documents that I hope could be of some help

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