lagtime issue

Hi all,

Need your help in the following issue :

I have a script which does the calling of some packages:
All the packages that need to be called are wriiten into a inputfile
Also there are more than one package with the same sequence number.

so in my script I start the packages with the same seq num at the same time by running in the backgroud and also until the previous seq is executed the next seq wont be picked up...
once the packages are called the first thing they do is populating the
time in a table when the package is called for execution...
from observation I can see that the theres a difference in time when shell has started the package execution and the time populated in the table(considerably in sec .....5-8 sec)

Also....sometimes all the packages with the same seq number are not populated with the same timestamp upon the execution(all packages with the same seq num are executed in the background simulatneously )...

So my overall cycle time is affected as half of the time is wasted in the lag time ...

Can anyone suggest why theres is a considerable lag in calling of packages and the best possible solution to avoid this lag ?

Thanks in anticipation ,

Regards
Navatha

please can ayone let me know why the same timestamp is not populating....