GSoC 2025 - Interest in contributing to "Implement Fileserver Memory Autotuning"

Greetings OpenAFS Team,

My name is Anvit Pusalkar and I'm a B.Tech student at Vellore Institute of
Technology, India. I am interested in working on the project "Implement
Fileserver Memory Autotuning".

I am an open-source contributor to Ansible, having contributed to minor
enhancements. I am proficient in C and have interest in working on
system-level projects.
I went through the initial PR (https://gerrit.openafs.org/#/c/11629/) which
attempted to add an -auto CLI option in src/viced/viced.c. I think
autotuning the OPT_small and OPT_large parameters could be a starting point.

Would this be a good approach?

We can add a functionality to -auto option to specify memory sizes based on
modern requirements.

I am currently referring to the research paper published on the Andrew File
System (https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/736/Fall2000/Papers/afs.pdf)
which mentions benchmarks which can be useful for testing the code.

Could you share more insights on this project and other important
guidelines?

Thank You.

Regards,
Anvit Pusalkar
https://github.com/anvitpusalkar