diff --git a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/NettyLoggingHandler.java b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/NettyLoggingHandler.java
index bc10c82..b35a46f 100644
--- a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/NettyLoggingHandler.java
+++ b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/NettyLoggingHandler.java
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@
 
     @Override
     public void handle(Message message) {
-        log.info("Received message. Payload has {} bytes", message.payload().length);
+        //log.info("Received message. Payload has {} bytes", message.payload().length);
     }
 }
diff --git a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyClient.java b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyClient.java
index dbdb3db..06daad8 100644
--- a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyClient.java
+++ b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyClient.java
@@ -10,12 +10,17 @@
 import org.onlab.netty.Endpoint;
 import org.onlab.netty.NettyMessagingService;
 import org.onlab.netty.Response;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import com.codahale.metrics.Timer;
 
 // FIXME: Should be move out to test or app
 public final class SimpleNettyClient {
-    private SimpleNettyClient() {
+
+private static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SimpleNettyClient.class);
+
+        private SimpleNettyClient() {
     }
 
     public static void main(String[] args)
@@ -40,6 +45,7 @@
         metrics.activate();
         MetricsFeature feature = new MetricsFeature("latency");
         MetricsComponent component = metrics.registerComponent("NettyMessaging");
+        log.info("warmup....");
 
         for (int i = 0; i < warmup; i++) {
             messaging.sendAsync(new Endpoint(host, port), "simple", "Hello World".getBytes());
@@ -48,6 +54,7 @@
                             "Hello World".getBytes());
         }
 
+        log.info("measuring async sender");
         Timer sendAsyncTimer = metrics.createTimer(component, feature, "AsyncSender");
 
         for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
diff --git a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyClientCommand.java b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyClientCommand.java
index 2af0c13..cce31db 100644
--- a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyClientCommand.java
+++ b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/SimpleNettyClientCommand.java
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
     @Argument(index = 2, name = "messageCount", description = "Message count",
             required = false, multiValued = false)
-    String messageCount = "5000000";
+    String messageCount = "100000";
 
     @Override
     protected void execute() {