Some DCE Performance Analysis Results

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.