Waiting step wait longer though event has created

HI Experts,
I have a WF which has a waiting step in one of two parallel branches of a Fork. I use below FM to create an event which is successfully created but my workflow sometimes takes longer to continue. It shows the status READY longer. BUT sometimes it works fine but sometimes more than 20, 30 minutes. I want to know why??? has any one an idea why??
CALL FUNCTION 'SWE_EVENT_CREATE'
    EXPORTING
      objtype                                    = c_object
      objkey                                      = lv_key
      event                                       = c_event
      START_RECFB_SYNCHRON = 'X'
      NO_COMMIT_FOR_QUEUE      = 'X'
    IMPORTING
      event_id                                   = lv_envt_id
      receiver_count                        = lv_rcvr_cnt
    EXCEPTIONS
      objtype_not_found                   = 1
      OTHERS                                   = 2.

Hi,
Definately check SWEL. It will probably give you more information what happened to the event or what it is waiting for.
There is not really that much difference between the functions. Both will create the event. But in general you should always chekc SAP_WAPI* functions before using some SWW* function when you are doing workflow development. They are newer versions and the support API for workflow development.
Regards,
Karri
EDIT: And perhaps with the SAP_WAPI_CREATE_EVENT the events would work better - which I actually doubt in your case, because I think that there is something wrong in the system of some general configurations (events go into queue or whatever).
Edited by: Karri Kemppi on Aug 24, 2011 1:14 PM

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