diff --git a/test/clt-tests/core/test-freeze-unfreeze-update.rec b/test/clt-tests/core/test-freeze-unfreeze-update.rec
index 16900d10d7..c9fcfcff9a 100644
--- a/test/clt-tests/core/test-freeze-unfreeze-update.rec
+++ b/test/clt-tests/core/test-freeze-unfreeze-update.rec
@@ -1,44 +1,38 @@
 ––– input –––
-echo -e "searchd {\n    listen = 9315:mysql\n    listen = 9316\n    log = /tmp/searchd.log\n    pid_file = /tmp/searchd.pid\n    data_dir = /tmp/data\n    watchdog = 0\n}" > /tmp/116.conf
+echo -e "searchd {\n    listen = 9306:mysql\n    listen = 9316\n    log = /tmp/searchd.log\n    pid_file = /tmp/searchd.pid\n    data_dir = /tmp/data\n    watchdog = 0\n}" > /tmp/watchdog-off.conf
 ––– output –––
 ––– input –––
-mkdir -p /tmp/data; rm -f /tmp/searchd.log; searchd --stopwait > /dev/null; searchd -c /tmp/116.conf; if timeout 10 grep -qm1 '\[BUDDY\] started' <(tail -n 1000 -f /tmp/searchd.log); then echo 'Buddy started!'; else echo 'Timeout or failed!'; cat /tmp/searchd.log;fi
+mkdir -p /tmp/data; rm -f /tmp/searchd.log; searchd --stopwait > /dev/null; searchd -c /tmp/watchdog-off.conf; if timeout 10 grep -qm1 '\[BUDDY\] started' <(tail -n 1000 -f /tmp/searchd.log); then echo 'Buddy started!'; else echo 'Timeout or failed!'; cat /tmp/searchd.log;fi
 ––– output –––
 Manticore %{SEMVER} %{COMMITDATE}#!/(\sdev)?\s/!#(columnar %{SEMVER} %{COMMITDATE}) (secondary %{SEMVER} %{COMMITDATE}) (knn %{SEMVER} %{COMMITDATE})
 Copyright (c) 2001-2016, Andrew Aksyonoff
 Copyright (c) 2008-2016, Sphinx Technologies Inc (http://sphinxsearch.com)
 Copyright (c) 2017-%{YEAR}, Manticore Software LTD (https://manticoresearch.com)
-[#!/[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}.[0-9]{3}/!#] [#!/[0-9]+/!#] using config file '/tmp/116.conf' (%{NUMBER} chars)...
+[#!/[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}.[0-9]{3}/!#] [#!/[0-9]+/!#] using config file '/tmp/watchdog-off.conf' (%{NUMBER} chars)...
 starting daemon version '%{SEMVER} %{COMMITDATE}#!/(\sdev)?\s/!#(columnar %{SEMVER} %{COMMITDATE}) (secondary %{SEMVER} %{COMMITDATE}) (knn %{SEMVER} %{COMMITDATE})' ...
-listening on all interfaces for mysql, port=9315
+listening on all interfaces for mysql, port=9306
 listening on all interfaces for sphinx and http(s), port=9316
 Buddy started!
 ––– input –––
-mysql -P9315 -h0 -e "drop table if exists t; create table t(s string); insert into t values(1, 'a'); flush ramchunk t"; echo $?
+mysql -P9306 -h0 -e "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t;"; rm -rf /tmp/data/t; mysql -P9306 -h0 -e "CREATE TABLE t(id INT, s STRING);"
 ––– output –––
-0
 ––– input –––
-mysql -P9315 -h0 -e "select * from t;"
+for n in `seq 1 100000`; do echo "INSERT INTO t VALUES($n, 'a');" >> /tmp/insert.sql; done; mysql -P9306 -h0 < /tmp/insert.sql; mysql -P9306 -h0 -e "FLUSH RAMCHUNK t;"
 ––– output –––
-+------+------+
-| id   | s    |
-+------+------+
-|    1 | a    |
-+------+------+
 ––– input –––
-rm -f /tmp/update.sql; for n in `seq 1 10000`; do echo "update t set s='b' where id=1;" >> /tmp/update.sql; done; while true; do mysql -P9315 -h0 < /tmp/update.sql | break; done &
+mysql -P9306 -h0 -e "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t;"
 ––– output –––
-[#!/[0-9]{1}/!#] %{NUMBER}
++----------+
+| count(*) |
++----------+
+|   100000 |
++----------+
 ––– input –––
-sleep 30; mysql -P9315 -h0 -e "select * from t;"
+rm -f /tmp/update.sql; for n in `seq 1 100`; do echo "UPDATE t SET s='b' WHERE id=$n;" >> /tmp/update.sql; done; while true; do mysql -P9306 -h0 < /tmp/update.sql; done & UPDATE_PID=$!
 ––– output –––
-+------+------+
-| id   | s    |
-+------+------+
-|    1 | b    |
-+------+------+
+[%{NUMBER}] %{NUMBER}
 ––– input –––
-stdbuf -oL mysql -P9315 -h0 -e "freeze t"
+sleep 1; mysql -P9306 -h0 -e "freeze t"
 ––– output –––
 +------------------------+------------------------+
 | file                   | normalized             |
@@ -59,19 +53,35 @@ stdbuf -oL mysql -P9315 -h0 -e "freeze t"
 | /tmp/data/t/t.settings | /tmp/data/t/t.settings |
 +------------------------+------------------------+
 ––– input –––
-mysql -P9315 -h0 -e "unfreeze t"; echo $?
+sleep 1; kill $UPDATE_PID; wait $UPDATE_PID 2>/dev/null; mysql -P9306 -h0 -e "unfreeze t"; echo $?
 ––– output –––
 0
 ––– input –––
-mysql -P9315 -h0 -e "DESCRIBE t"
+(sleep 1; mysql -P9306 -h0 -e "drop table if exists t;" && mysql -P9306 -h0 -e "CREATE TABLE t(a string); insert into t values(1, 'a'); flush ramchunk t; freeze t"; mysql -P9306 -h0 -e "update t set a='b' where id = 1" 2>&1 &)
 ––– output –––
-+-------+--------+------------+
-| Field | Type   | Properties |
-+-------+--------+------------+
-| id    | bigint |            |
-| s     | string |            |
-+-------+--------+------------+
++------------------------+------------------------+
+| file                   | normalized             |
++------------------------+------------------------+
+| /tmp/data/t/t.0.spa    | /tmp/data/t/t.0.spa    |
+| /tmp/data/t/t.0.spb    | /tmp/data/t/t.0.spb    |
+| /tmp/data/t/t.0.spd    | /tmp/data/t/t.0.spd    |
+| /tmp/data/t/t.0.spe    | /tmp/data/t/t.0.spe    |
+| /tmp/data/t/t.0.sph    | /tmp/data/t/t.0.sph    |
+| /tmp/data/t/t.0.sphi   | /tmp/data/t/t.0.sphi   |
+| /tmp/data/t/t.0.spi    | /tmp/data/t/t.0.spi    |
+| /tmp/data/t/t.0.spidx  | /tmp/data/t/t.0.spidx  |
+| /tmp/data/t/t.0.spm    | /tmp/data/t/t.0.spm    |
+| /tmp/data/t/t.0.spp    | /tmp/data/t/t.0.spp    |
+| /tmp/data/t/t.0.spt    | /tmp/data/t/t.0.spt    |
+| /tmp/data/t/t.meta     | /tmp/data/t/t.meta     |
+| /tmp/data/t/t.settings | /tmp/data/t/t.settings |
++------------------------+------------------------+
 ––– input –––
-mysql -P9315 -h0 -e "UPDATE t SET s='с' WHERE id=1; FLUSH RAMCHUNK t"; echo $?
+if timeout 5 mysql -P9306 -h0 -e 'SELECT * FROM t'; then echo 'Query executed'; else echo 'Query not executed'; fi
 ––– output –––
-0
++------+------+
+| id   | a    |
++------+------+
+|    1 | a    |
++------+------+
+Query executed