ILUGC Monthly Meet - October 10, 2020 - 3-6 pm

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998.

We will be organizing this month’s meet through ILUGC’s Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net).

If Visual Presentation required, we will use https://meet.jit.si (Link will be provided in #ilugc irc channel at the time of meet by the speaker who is willing to show visual content)

We usually meet on the second Saturday of every month, and for the month of October we shall meet through IRC on Saturday 10, 2020 at 1500 IST.

IRC Server: chat.freenode.net
Channel: #ilugc
Web IRC: https://meet.ilugc.in

Simple Meeting Guidelines

we encourage participants to follow these simple steps to conduct the meet effectively,

  1. Please watch what others are doing and do not interrupt
  2. If you have a question, type “?” and wait for your time to ask, the speaker who is conducting the talk will call your name to ask a question.
  3. If you need to speak, type “!” and wait for your time to speak.
  4. If you’re done speaking, type “eof”
  5. If you agree with someone, type “nickname: +1”, here nickname is who you are agreeing with.

See: https://ilugc.in/best-practices-to-conduct-online-meet/

Talk Details

Talk 1

Topic: Introduction to Device Mapper

Description: In this talk we will get introduced to the Device Mapper framework in Linux kernel, how it is used for various purposes like LVM, dm-crypt, software RAID etc. We will have a simple demo utilizing Device Mapper using kpartx tool to mount partitions from a single .img file.

Duration: 30 minutes

Speaker Name: Mohan R

About Speaker: Just another FOSS Enthusiast

Talk 2

Topic: Profiling with BPFTrace

Description: BPF is a kernel feature that allows us to monitor some events happening inside the Linux kernel.

It was initially used for packet filtering. But it has been extended into an observability and profiling tool.

BPF can be used to answer questions like

  • What is the average latency of a particular kernel function?
  • How many times does a system call get called in a time interval?
  • What is the stack trace when inside a particular kernel function?

BPFtrace is a tool that makes it easier to write BPF code. In this talk, I’ll give a brief introduction to BPF and show a demo of using BPFtrace for tracing.

Duration: 60 minutes

Speaker Name: Abdun Nihaal

About Speaker: I’m a student pursuing M.S. at IITM.

Talk 3

Topic: Rust

Description: Rust is a multi-paradigm programming language focused on performance and safety, especially safe concurrency. In this talk, I’ll give a brief introduction about Rust and my experience of using it

Duration: 30 minutes

Speaker: Sibi Prabakaran

About Speaker: https://psibi.in/about.html

After Talks

QA & general discussions

All are welcome.