diff --git a/arangod/Agency/RestAgencyHandler.cpp b/arangod/Agency/RestAgencyHandler.cpp
index 16ebe8b76b..ac12040874 100644
--- a/arangod/Agency/RestAgencyHandler.cpp
+++ b/arangod/Agency/RestAgencyHandler.cpp
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ HttpHandler::status_t RestAgencyHandler::handleWrite() {
           } catch (std::exception const& e) {
             LOG_TOPIC(WARN, Logger::AGENCY) << e.what();
           }
-          std::this_thread::sleep_for(duration_t(1));
+          std::this_thread::sleep_for(duration_t(2));
           if (max_index > 0) {
             _agent->waitFor(max_index);
           }
diff --git a/arangod/Agency/Supervision.cpp b/arangod/Agency/Supervision.cpp
index caddf6bae7..bb02164373 100644
--- a/arangod/Agency/Supervision.cpp
+++ b/arangod/Agency/Supervision.cpp
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ void Supervision::run() {
       // make sense at all without other ArangoDB servers, we wait pretty
       // long here before giving up:
       if (!updateAgencyPrefix(1000, 1)) {
-        LOG_TOPIC(ERR, Logger::AGENCY)
+        LOG_TOPIC(DEBUG, Logger::AGENCY)
           << "Cannot get prefix from Agency. Stopping supervision for good.";
         break;
       }
diff --git a/js/client/tests/agency/agency-test.js b/js/client/tests/agency/agency-test.js
index 09229998b7..4890003d25 100644
--- a/js/client/tests/agency/agency-test.js
+++ b/js/client/tests/agency/agency-test.js
@@ -355,7 +355,6 @@ function agencyTestSuite () {
             leaderEndpoint = config.configuration.endpoints[config.leaderId].replace("tcp", "http");
             break;
           }
-          wait(0.05);
         }
       } else {
         leaderEndpoint = agencyServers[0].replace("tcp", "http");