On the Performance of Courier Remote Procedure Calls Under 4.1c BSD

James R Larus

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-83-123

1983

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Courier is a remote procedure call standard developed by Xerox. This paper reports measurements of Courier's performance under 4.1c BSD Unix running on VAX-11/780s and on Sun personal workstations.

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p> The cost of a remote procedure call is many times that of a local call. However, Courier's performance could be greatly improved by using a simpler protocol and better Ethernet interfaces.

BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Larus:CSD-83-123,
    Author= {Larus, James R},
    Title= {On the Performance of Courier Remote Procedure Calls Under 4.1c BSD},
    Year= {1983},
    Month= {Aug},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1983/6334.html},
    Number= {UCB/CSD-83-123},
    Abstract= {Courier is a remote procedure call standard developed by Xerox. This paper reports measurements of Courier's performance under 4.1c BSD Unix running on VAX-11/780s and on Sun personal workstations.  <p>  The cost of a remote procedure call is many times that of a local call.  However, Courier's performance could be greatly improved by using a simpler protocol and better Ethernet interfaces.},
}

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