Event receiver takes a break

Question

I have an event receiver that listens on three list. When I save Data, about 7 elements are changed, so the event receiver has to start 7 times.

Inside the ULS-log I can see the event receiver does what he should, but between each of them there is a break of exactly 3 minutes. I would have expeceted that the event receivers starts immediatly.

Is this a normal behaviour? And can this be tweaked?

Answer 1

With SharePoint you can have both synchronous and asynchronous event receivers. Make sure your receiver is of the synchronous kind if you want it to run immidiately (the method name should end in -ing as opposed to -ted).