diff --git a/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/config/ctaeos/etc/sysconfig/eos b/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/config/ctaeos/etc/sysconfig/eos
index d0013be6315565fe6f0415631a17d3f8b685f2b8..ef935af2434f7c02f34be1f9507a6c37cbcf5c22 100644
--- a/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/config/ctaeos/etc/sysconfig/eos
+++ b/continuousintegration/docker/ctafrontend/cc7/config/ctaeos/etc/sysconfig/eos
@@ -53,3 +53,5 @@ export EOS_TTY_BROADCAST_LISTEN_LOGFILE="/var/log/eos/mgm/xrdlog.mgm"
 # define the log file regex you want to broad cast to all consoles
 export EOS_TTY_BROACAST_EGREP="\"CRIT|ALERT|EMERG|PROGRESS\""
 
+# define the fst delete rate
+export EOS_FST_DELETE_QUERY_INTERVAL=5
diff --git a/continuousintegration/orchestration/tests/client_ar.sh b/continuousintegration/orchestration/tests/client_ar.sh
index f0c463ada5106ee9f4f46ab201dc81814e48baaf..81534651960d9909ddec9ae965314e0e9f50f91e 100644
--- a/continuousintegration/orchestration/tests/client_ar.sh
+++ b/continuousintegration/orchestration/tests/client_ar.sh
@@ -252,9 +252,9 @@ fi
 echo "###"
 echo "${TAPEONLY}/${ARCHIVED} on tape only"
 echo "###"
-#echo "Sleeping 400 seconds to allow MGM-FST communication to settle after disk copy deletion."
-#sleep 400
-#echo "###"
+echo "Sleeping 10 seconds to allow MGM-FST communication to settle after disk copy deletion."
+sleep 10
+echo "###"
 
 
 if [[ $TAPEAWAREGC == 1 ]]; then