diff --git a/client/src/components/History/providers/HistoryContentProvider/loadContents.js b/client/src/components/History/providers/HistoryContentProvider/loadContents.js
index 8a57785f2e8..43e99a457f2 100644
--- a/client/src/components/History/providers/HistoryContentProvider/loadContents.js
+++ b/client/src/components/History/providers/HistoryContentProvider/loadContents.js
@@ -6,30 +6,30 @@ import { loadHistoryContents } from "../../caching";
 
 // prettier-ignore
 export const loadContents = (cfg = {}) => {
-    const {
-        windowSize,
-        initialInterval = 3 * 1000,
-        maxInterval = 10 * initialInterval,
-        disablePoll = false,
+    const { 
+        windowSize, 
+        initialInterval = 2 * 1000, 
+        maxInterval = 10 * initialInterval, 
+        disablePoll = false 
     } = cfg;
 
-    return switchMap(([{id}, params, hid]) => {
+    return switchMap(([{ id }, params, hid]) => {
 
         // a single history update
-        const singleLoad$ = defer(() => of([id, params, hid]).pipe(
-            loadHistoryContents({ windowSize }),
-        ));
+        const singleLoad$ = of([id, params, hid]).pipe(
+            loadHistoryContents({ windowSize })
+        );
 
         // start repeating, delay gets longer over time until unsubscribed
-        const freshPoll$ = singleLoad$.pipe(
+        const freshPoll$ = defer(() => singleLoad$.pipe(
             decay({ initialInterval, maxInterval }),
-            repeat(),
-        );
+            repeat()
+        ));
 
         // history, tools routes all refresh
         // exclude our own polling url though
         const routes = [/api\/(history|tools|histories)/];
-        const methods = ["POST", "PUT", "DELETE"]
+        const methods = ["POST", "PUT", "DELETE"];
         const resetPoll$ = monitorXHR({ methods, routes });
 
         // resets re-subscribe to freshPoll$ starting the decay over again
@@ -40,5 +40,5 @@ export const loadContents = (cfg = {}) => {
         );
 
         return disablePoll ? singleLoad$ : poll$;
-    })
-}
+    });
+};
diff --git a/client/src/utils/observable/decay.js b/client/src/utils/observable/decay.js
index 1c3b702da7c..b1ec4a94802 100644
--- a/client/src/utils/observable/decay.js
+++ b/client/src/utils/observable/decay.js
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 import { of } from "rxjs";
 import { mergeMap, delay } from "rxjs/operators";
 
+let decayCounter = 0;
+
 // prettier-ignore
 export const decay = (cfg = {}) => {
     const {
@@ -15,12 +17,13 @@ export const decay = (cfg = {}) => {
     }
 
     let counter = 0;
+    decayCounter++;
 
     return mergeMap(val => {
         let waitTime = Math.floor(initialInterval * Math.exp(lambda * counter++));
         waitTime = Math.max(waitTime, initialInterval);
         waitTime = Math.min(waitTime, maxInterval);
-        // console.log("decay time", waitTime);
+        console.log("decay time", decayCounter, waitTime);
         return of(val).pipe(delay(waitTime))
     });
 }