diff --git a/xCAT-nbroot/overlay/bin/dodestiny b/xCAT-nbroot/overlay/bin/dodestiny
index 19a96b41c..b2903ac05 100755
--- a/xCAT-nbroot/overlay/bin/dodestiny
+++ b/xCAT-nbroot/overlay/bin/dodestiny
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ while :; do
     usleep 500000 #Mitigate occurrances of 'failed to notify node'
     while [ ! -r /restart ]; do
       ifconfig -a|grep HWaddr|grep -v sit|awk '{print $1 "|" $5}'
+      sleep 1
       MTM="unknown"
       SERIAL="unknown"
       if [ -x /bin/vpddecode ]; then