Thanks for your quick reply tachyon,
The problem however is not how to fire up processes, but how to fire up a process for each collection, and the collection information is stored in a MSSQL database, so there is no way I can drop the Win32::OLE-thing.
Ofcourse I can try to code around this, which means I have to find another way to access the database, possibly causing other problems. Apparantly there is a downside to eveything, and I have to cope with that. The bad thing is I was counting on this to work since we have a serious problem here and by the end of this day our product goes live! Now I solved things with Win32::Process, each of the processes starting in it's own shell.
When the parent dies however the childers keep on going. Also The children are out of control, so our M$ machine died this weekend because 100's of 'CMD.EXE''s were romping around.
That's okay for monks, but not for lost processes. ;-) If you or anyone else 'sees the light', be welcome to help this lost monk.
In the meantime I'll start humming.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............. }-|
Rgds, John

In reply to Re^4: Parallel tasks by john.goor
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