diff --git a/tests/run-tests.sh b/tests/run-tests.sh
index 3a6f0377..9a480bae 100755
--- a/tests/run-tests.sh
+++ b/tests/run-tests.sh
@@ -92,10 +92,14 @@ done
 T_TRACE_DUMP="0"
 T_TRACE_PRINTK="0"
 T_PORT_START="19700"
-T_LOOP_ITER="1"
+T_LOOP_ITER="100"
 
 # array declarations to be able to use array ops
 declare -a T_TRACE_GLOB
+T_TRACE_GLOB=( "scoutfs*" )
+
+# CI sets this to 3600, but, for this case we want it very short
+echo 30 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs
 
 while true; do
 	case $1 in
@@ -493,6 +497,11 @@ crash_monitor()
 			bad=1
 		fi
 
+		if dmesg | grep -q "blocked for more than"; then
+			echo "run-tests monitor saw blocked task message"
+			bad=1
+		fi
+
 		if dmesg | grep -q "error indicated by fence action" ; then
 			echo "run-tests monitor saw fence agent error message"
 			bad=1
@@ -504,6 +513,8 @@ crash_monitor()
 		fi
 
 		if [ "$bad" != 0 ]; then
+			sync & # maybe this gets logs synced...
+			sleep .1
 			echo "run-tests monitor triggering crash"
 			echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
 			exit 1
@@ -706,6 +717,8 @@ for t in $tests; do
 		# stop looping if we didn't pass
 		if [ "$sts" != "$T_PASS_STATUS" ]; then
 			break;
+		else
+			echo > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
 		fi
 	done
 
diff --git a/tests/sequence b/tests/sequence
index 18eff7cf..8faac301 100644
--- a/tests/sequence
+++ b/tests/sequence
@@ -1,60 +1 @@
-export-get-name-parent.sh
-basic-block-counts.sh
-basic-bad-mounts.sh
-basic-posix-acl.sh
-inode-items-updated.sh
-simple-inode-index.sh
-simple-staging.sh
-simple-release-extents.sh
-simple-readdir.sh
-get-referring-entries.sh
-fallocate.sh
-basic-truncate.sh
-data-prealloc.sh
-setattr_more.sh
-offline-extent-waiting.sh
-move-blocks.sh
-projects.sh
-large-fragmented-free.sh
-format-version-forward-back.sh
-enospc.sh
-mmap.sh
-srch-safe-merge-pos.sh
-srch-basic-functionality.sh
-simple-xattr-unit.sh
-retention-basic.sh
-totl-xattr-tag.sh
-quota.sh
-lock-refleak.sh
-lock-shrink-consistency.sh
-lock-shrink-read-race.sh
-lock-pr-cw-conflict.sh
-lock-revoke-getcwd.sh
-lock-recover-invalidate.sh
 export-lookup-evict-race.sh
-createmany-parallel.sh
-createmany-large-names.sh
-createmany-rename-large-dir.sh
-stage-release-race-alloc.sh
-stage-multi-part.sh
-o_tmpfile.sh
-basic-posix-consistency.sh
-dirent-consistency.sh
-mkdir-rename-rmdir.sh
-lock-ex-race-processes.sh
-cross-mount-data-free.sh
-persistent-item-vers.sh
-setup-error-teardown.sh
-resize-devices.sh
-change-devices.sh
-fence-and-reclaim.sh
-quorum-heartbeat-timeout.sh
-orphan-inodes.sh
-mount-unmount-race.sh
-client-unmount-recovery.sh
-createmany-parallel-mounts.sh
-archive-light-cycle.sh
-block-stale-reads.sh
-inode-deletion.sh
-renameat2-noreplace.sh
-xfstests.sh