Hi,

what kind of replication do you use?

And, if you use transactional replication, do you use push or pull. It is very difficult to tell you, how to start replecation, if we don't know you setup.

Snapshot-Agent is used, if new objects should replicated. It is not necassary to run all the time

LogRead-Agent should run first, because this agents reads the log from the publisher.

Distribution-Agent should run at last, because this agents writes the log to the subsriber database.

You get a lock of blockings, if many replications use the same distribution database. Can you tell us, how many replications with how many article you use?

Andreas