diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index d59e10ed1df..530728294d2 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Release 0.3.0 - Unreleased
               instead of Map (Jonathan Gray via Stack)
    HBASE-795  More Table operation in TableHandler for REST interface
               (Sishen Freecity via Stack)
+   HBASE-830  Debugging HCM.locateRegionInMeta is painful
 
   NEW FEATURES
    HBASE-787  Postgresql to HBase table replication example (Tim Sell via Stack)
diff --git a/conf/hbase-default.xml b/conf/hbase-default.xml
index 28e3ab0414d..1da626462ab 100644
--- a/conf/hbase-default.xml
+++ b/conf/hbase-default.xml
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
   </property>
   <property>
     <name>hbase.client.pause</name>
-    <value>10000</value>
+    <value>2000</value>
     <description>General client pause value.  Used mostly as value to wait
     before running a retry of a failed get, region lookup, etc.</description>
   </property>
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HConstants.java b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HConstants.java
index c7e89a6dc4a..1ff54250fbf 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HConstants.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HConstants.java
@@ -231,5 +231,5 @@ public interface HConstants {
    * This is a retry backoff multiplier table similar to the BSD TCP syn
    * backoff table, a bit more aggressive than simple exponential backoff.
    */ 
-  public static int RETRY_BACKOFF[] = { 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 };
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+  public static int RETRY_BACKOFF[] = { 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 8, 16, 32 };
+}
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HConnectionManager.java b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HConnectionManager.java
index b5d5aa6d0fe..b317104874f 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HConnectionManager.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HConnectionManager.java
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ public class HConnectionManager implements HConstants {
             "Unable to find region server interface " + serverClassName, e);
       }
 
-      this.pause = conf.getLong("hbase.client.pause", 10 * 1000);
+      this.pause = conf.getLong("hbase.client.pause", 2 * 1000);
       this.numRetries = conf.getInt("hbase.client.retries.number", 10);
       this.maxRPCAttempts = conf.getInt("hbase.client.rpc.maxattempts", 1);
       
@@ -557,7 +557,9 @@ public class HConnectionManager implements HConstants {
           }
           if (tries < numRetries - 1) {
             if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
-              LOG.debug("reloading table servers because: " + e.getMessage());
+              LOG.debug("Attempt " + tries + " of " + this.numRetries +
+                " failed with <" + e + ">. Retrying after sleep of " +
+                getPauseTime(tries));
             }
             relocateRegion(parentTable, metaKey);
           } else {