Avoid long (possible infinit) pauses in maintainer when few apps

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/node-repository/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/maintenance/NodeMetricsDbMaintainer.java b/node-repository/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/maintenance/NodeMetricsDbMaintainer.java
index dd4839d131a..b01c87a6e37 100644
--- a/node-repository/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/maintenance/NodeMetricsDbMaintainer.java
+++ b/node-repository/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/maintenance/NodeMetricsDbMaintainer.java
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ public class NodeMetricsDbMaintainer extends NodeRepositoryMaintainer {
             Set<ApplicationId> applications = activeNodesByApplication().keySet();
             if (applications.isEmpty()) return 1.0;
 
-            long pauseMs = interval().toMillis() / applications.size() - 1; // spread requests over interval
+            long pauseMs = interval().toMillis() / Math.max(3, applications.size() - 1); // spread requests over interval
             int done = 0;
             for (ApplicationId application : applications) {
                 attempts++;