diff --git a/pkg/controller/queuejob/queuejob_controller_ex.go b/pkg/controller/queuejob/queuejob_controller_ex.go
index ae70b837..58038dc7 100644
--- a/pkg/controller/queuejob/queuejob_controller_ex.go
+++ b/pkg/controller/queuejob/queuejob_controller_ex.go
@@ -1625,7 +1625,10 @@ func (cc *XController) addQueueJob(obj interface{}) {
 					}
 					if latestAw.Status.State != arbv1.AppWrapperStateActive && latestAw.Status.State != arbv1.AppWrapperStateEnqueued && latestAw.Status.State != arbv1.AppWrapperStateRunningHoldCompletion {
 						klog.V(2).Infof("[Informer-addQJ] Stopping requeue for AW %s/%s with status %s", latestAw.Namespace, latestAw.Name, latestAw.Status.State)
-						break // Exit the loop
+						AwinEtcd, err := cc.arbclients.WorkloadV1beta1().AppWrappers(latestAw.Namespace).Get(context.Background(), latestAw.Name, metav1.GetOptions{})
+						if AwinEtcd.Status.State == latestAw.Status.State && err != nil {
+							break // Exit the loop
+						}
 					}
 					// Enqueue the latest copy of the AW.
 					if (qj.Status.State != arbv1.AppWrapperStateCompleted && qj.Status.State != arbv1.AppWrapperStateFailed) && hasCompletionStatus {
diff --git a/test/perf-test/perf.sh b/test/perf-test/perf.sh
index 7450d7e2..a9d47801 100755
--- a/test/perf-test/perf.sh
+++ b/test/perf-test/perf.sh
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ check_kubectl_login_status
 # Track whether you have the MCAD controller installed
 echo "Checking MCAD Controller installation status"
 echo
-check_mcad_installed_status
+#check_mcad_installed_status
 
 echo
 read -p "How many appwrapper jobs do you want?" jobs
@@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ read -p "How many appwrapper jobs do you want?" jobs
 # Start the timer now
 SECONDS=0
 
-echo "jobs number is $jobs"
+echo "Appwrapper number is $jobs"
 export STARTTIME=`date +"%T"`
 echo " "
-echo "Jobs started at: $STARTTIME" |tee job-$STARTTIME.log
+echo "Appwrappers started at: $STARTTIME" |tee job-$STARTTIME.log
 echo " "
 
 # This fixes the number of jobs to be one less so the for loop gets the right amount
@@ -113,19 +113,19 @@ done
         sed -i "s/defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-$next_num/defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-1/g" ${SCRIPT_DIR}/preempt-exp.yaml ;;
     esac
 
-# Check for all jobs to report complete
-jobstatus=`kubectl get jobs -n default --no-headers --field-selector status.successful=1 |wc -l`
+# Check for all appwrappers to report complete
+jobstatus=`kubectl get appwrappers -o=custom-columns=SUCCESS:.status.Succeeded -n default |grep 1 |wc -l`
 
 while [ $jobstatus -lt $jobs ]
 do
-   echo "Number of completed jobs is: " $jobstatus " and the goal is: " $jobs
+   echo "Number of completed appwrappers is: " $jobstatus " and the goal is: " $jobs
    sleep 10
-   jobstatus=`kubectl get jobs -n default --no-headers --field-selector status.successful=1 |wc -l`
+   jobstatus=`kubectl get appwrappers -o=custom-columns=SUCCESS:.status.Succeeded -n default |grep 1 |wc -l`
 done
 
 echo " "
 export FINISHTIME=`date +"%T"`
-echo "All $jobstatus jobs finished: $FINISHTIME" |tee -a job-$STARTTIME.log
+echo "All $jobstatus appwrappers finished: $FINISHTIME" |tee -a job-$STARTTIME.log
 echo "Total amount of time for $jobs appwrappers is: $SECONDS seconds" |tee -a ${SCRIPT_DIR}/job-$STARTTIME.log
 echo " "
 echo "Test results are stored in this file: ${SCRIPT_DIR}/job-$next_num-$STARTTIME.log"
diff --git a/test/perf-test/preempt-exp.yaml b/test/perf-test/preempt-exp.yaml
index 35063c5d..13d9e003 100644
--- a/test/perf-test/preempt-exp.yaml
+++ b/test/perf-test/preempt-exp.yaml
@@ -11,15 +11,14 @@ spec:
         growthType: "exponential" 
   priority: 9
   resources:
-    Items: []
     GenericItems:
     - replicas: 1
       completionstatus: Complete
       custompodresources:
       - replicas: 1
         requests:
-          cpu: 10m
-          memory: 10M
+          cpu: 500m
+          memory: 128M
           nvidia.com/gpu: 0
         limits:
           cpu: 500m
@@ -31,8 +30,8 @@ spec:
         metadata:
           namespace: default
           name: defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-1
-          # labels:
-          #   appwrapper.mcad.ibm.com: defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-1
+          labels:
+            appwrapper.mcad.ibm.com: defaultaw-schd-spec-with-timeout-1
         spec:
           parallelism: 1
           completions: 1
@@ -49,8 +48,8 @@ spec:
                 args: [ "sleep 10" ]
                 resources:
                   requests:
-                    memory: "10Mi"
-                    cpu: "10m"
+                    memory: "128Mi"
+                    cpu: "500m"
                   limits:
                     memory: "128Mi"
                     cpu: "500m"