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Peter,

Peter T. Breuer

I know what SMP is. Even though there would be more than one process running on the machine at a time, there was only 1 processor in the box. Therefore, I thought that there would be no way for each process to come up with the same amount of milliseconds or nanoseconds (since one process can get a hold of the CPU - to actually do work - at one time).

If there was more than one processor invovled, then I can see some problems going on with my initial approach.

way I can use the facility. People had mentioned the use of the generation of the sequential number. I thought they were mentioning that I could do this by doing some kind of looping feature in ONE process. So, I wanted to clarify that TWO or MORE processes would be running in which case, I would have to use something OS related to get a unique number - i.e. it could not be a part of the code itself.

NO! What I meant is that there would be more than one process running the same program at the same time. Both processes would access the database. If the DB is down, then BOTH processes will blow up. BOTH will need to write error files at the same time. I thought that if only one process could get a hold of the CPU then the time generated would be different - again, I am thinking that this would not be the case if more than one CPU is in the box.

Thanks.