How 'bout this?
I'm making the assumption that you can create a process out of ...->GetObject(.);
On my win2K box this creates the processes every 5 secs. you can kill them in the if stmt if necessary... 
use Win32::Process;
...
...
my $pID;

foreach (servers) {
...
...
Win32::Process::Create ($pObj, Win32::OLE->GetObj..., ....);
$pID = $pObj->GetProcessID();
$pObj->Wait(5000) # 5 secs

// it's either been 5 secs or $pObj finished
if ($pID is there) {
    then it's been 5secs
    cleanup and restart your loop
} else {
   $pObj finished?
}
}

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In reply to Re^3: simple timeout by dwilson@d7net
in thread simple timeout by disciple01

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