Index: tasks.scm
==================================================================
--- tasks.scm
+++ tasks.scm
@@ -382,11 +382,11 @@
       (if (and (not server-dat)
 	       (< delay-time delay-max-tries))
 	  (begin
 	    (if (common:low-noise-print 60 "tasks:start-and-wait-for-server" run-id)
 		(debug:print 0 "Try starting server for run-id " run-id))
-	    (thread-sleep! (/ (random 1000) 1000))
+	    (thread-sleep! (/ (random 2000) 1000))
 	    (server:kind-run run-id)
 	    (thread-sleep! (min delay-time 1))
 	    (loop (tasks:get-server (db:delay-if-busy tdbdat) run-id)(+ delay-time 1))))))
 
 (define (tasks:get-all-servers mdb)

Index: tests/fullrun/megatest.config
==================================================================
--- tests/fullrun/megatest.config
+++ tests/fullrun/megatest.config
@@ -139,11 +139,11 @@
 # Three minutes is 0.05 hours
 # timeout 0.025
 timeout 0.061
 
 # Server is required - slower but more resistant to Sqlite issues.
-# required yes
+required yes
 
 # Start server when average query takes longer than this
 # server-query-threshold 55500
 server-query-threshold 100