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Some DCE performance analysis results

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DCE — The OSF Distributed Computing Environment Client/Server Model and Beyond (DCE 1993)

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This paper explores the performance behavior of two core services of the OSF DCE, RPC (Remote Procedure Call) and threads. The RPC performance is gauged as a function of the length of argument(s) passed. We show that:

  • DCE RPC performance behavior with or without security features is linear with the length of the messages and is comparable to that of a commonly available RPC technology once the client and server are fully bound to each other,

  • authentication on RPCs is inexpensive, and

  • encryption and integrity on messages do not come cheap.

We also demonstrate that multi-threading increases throughput even on a single processor system and how much the throughput is improved in comparison with multiple single-threaded processes. The effect of multi-threading a client process on throughput and response time as a function of the number of threads is brought out.

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  1. Bellcore, RRC, 444 Hoes Lane, 08854, Piscataway, NJ, USA

    B. Dasarathy, Khalid Khalil & David E. Ruddock

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Dasarathy, B., Khalil, K., Ruddock, D.E. (1993). Some DCE performance analysis results. In: Schill, A. (eds) DCE — The OSF Distributed Computing Environment Client/Server Model and Beyond. DCE 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 731. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57306-2_25

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