Ok i was reading this thread and this is interesting.. i have something more or less like this... but the think is... my aplication its a payroll system (or i dont know how to say it in english) sometimes if i have a lot of data and i'm making like a huge process that checks the history tables and calculates something from the history it can take about 3 minutes or so.. i have a client that wants 2 minutes of idle time.. the question is how can i see if there's a process runing of that kind, so that i ignore the process time for inactivity or something like that??