the fork at the end of the loop is a typo, I took it off. If I understand your recommendation correctly you would package the sub scripts. I don't get how that will affect the destruction of $data and $results, and if $data and $result are being destructed in the child processes is a problem, does that mean that I can set the $sqlstatement from the child processes and execute it in the parent process (which would save on a connection to the DB)? Thanks