diff --git a/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/blade.pm b/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/blade.pm
index f44f5b538..3b4cd9b0c 100644
--- a/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/blade.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/blade.pm
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 package xCAT_plugin::blade;
 #use Net::SNMP qw(:snmp INTEGER);
 use xCAT::Table;
+use Thread qw(yield);
 use xCAT::Utils;
 use IO::Socket;
 use SNMP;
@@ -1101,6 +1102,7 @@ sub forward_data {
       close($rfh);
     }
   }
+  yield; #Try to avoid useless iterations as much as possible
   return $rc;
 }
 
diff --git a/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/ipmi.pm b/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/ipmi.pm
index 5fd5dd21d..e9741b382 100644
--- a/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/ipmi.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/ipmi.pm
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ package xCAT_plugin::ipmi;
 
 use Storable qw(store_fd retrieve_fd thaw freeze);
 use xCAT::Utils;
+use Thread qw(yield);
 
 require Exporter;
 @ISA = qw(Exporter);
@@ -4541,6 +4542,7 @@ sub forward_data { #unserialize data from pipe, chunk at a time, use magic to de
       close($rfh);
     }
   }
+  yield; #Avoid useless loop iterations by giving children a chance to fill pipes
   return $rc;
 }
 
diff --git a/xCAT-server-2.0/sbin/xcatd b/xCAT-server-2.0/sbin/xcatd
index cdec46be0..61f08da64 100755
--- a/xCAT-server-2.0/sbin/xcatd
+++ b/xCAT-server-2.0/sbin/xcatd
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use Storable qw(freeze thaw);
 use xCAT::Utils;
 use File::Path;
 use Time::HiRes qw(sleep);
+use Thread qw(yield);
 use xCAT::Client submit_request;
 
 use IO::Socket::SSL;
@@ -645,7 +646,7 @@ sub relay_dispatch {
          close($rin);
       }
    }
-   sleep (0.01); #Again, try not to overwhelm the system
+   yield; #At this point, explicitly yield to other processes.  If children will have more data, this process would otherwise uselessly loop on data that never will be.  If children are all done, still no harm in waiting a short bit for a timeslice to come back
    return scalar(@ready_ins);
 }
 
@@ -914,7 +915,7 @@ sub relay_fds { #Relays file descriptors from pipes to children to the SSL socke
       close($rfh);             
     }
   }
-  sleep (0.01); #This gets called in a loop a lot, this takes the edge off
+  yield; #Give other processes, including children, explicit control, to avoid uselessly aggressive looping
   return $rc;
 }
 
diff --git a/xCAT-server-2.0/share/xcat/postscripts/hardeths b/xCAT-server-2.0/share/xcat/postscripts/hardeths
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7c5bbae2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server-2.0/share/xcat/postscripts/hardeths
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+for nic in `ifconfig -a|grep -B1 "inet addr"|awk '{print $1}'|grep -v inet|grep -v -- --|grep -v lo`; do
+   IPADDR=`ifconfig $nic |grep "inet addr"|awk '{print $2}' |awk -F: '{print $2}'`
+   NETMASK=`ifconfig $nic |grep "inet addr"|awk '{print $4}' |awk -F: '{print $2}'`
+   sed -i s/BOOTPROTO=dhcp/BOOTPROTO=none/ /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-$nic
+   echo IPADDR=$IPADDR >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-$nic
+   echo NETMASK=$NETMASK >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-$nic
+done
+sed -i "s/HOSTNAME.*/HOSTNAME=`hostname`/" /etc/sysconfig/network
+