Branch in BPM hangs

Hi,
Basically I have a BPM that has two parallel branches - one branch for sending to system A and a second branch for sending to system B.
The first parallel branch executes almost immediately with the data being sent ok to system A.
However, the second parallel branch seems to hang for about 10 minutes before it executes !!
I thought the idea of parallel processing was that it happens at the same time.
Any ideas what can cause this ?
Cheers
Colin.

Hi,
also check..
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/xi/3.0/sap%20exchange%20infrastructure%20tuning%20guide%20xi%203.0.pdf
See the below links to solve the BPM performance problems
BPM Performance tuning
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/70ada5ef-0201-0010-1f8b-c935e444b0ad
BPM performance question
SAP XI BPM Performance and statistics
Performance problem on BPM
BPM pros and cons
Performance problems using BPM
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e7bc3a5a-0501-0010-1095-eb47159e169c
Regards
Chilla..

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