> Or you might want to use threads, though they are certainly not the same
> both have their advantages and you might want to read up on them before
> making a decission on which to use.
>
> In any case I would advise you to first, use which ever way of modeling you
> prefer, to draw out the way the system works and to identify exactly which
> processes depend on which other processes. Due to the way OS's handle
> multiple seperate processes paying special attention to how the seperate
> independent parts run and how that might affect the main program or other
> independent parts becomes quite important. You need to count on some
> processes failing, not finshing as fast as you would normally expect because
> there are now more processes running at the same time and things like file
> locking if the independent parts are operating on the same files... all in
> all making a quick drawing even of a very simple program can prevent a lot
> of trouble later on.

Thank you Rob. The good thing is that these process I am trying to launch
are not dependant on each other. In fact, they are actually same process with
different parameters. I just need to launch them based on some algo and user
constraints.

Regards

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