Disable/enable MSCM schedulers?

We are stress testing our S3 environment and I would like to involve MSCM in that testing. I would like to disable the record traffic out of MSCM so that we can queue up a couple hundred par counts and issues on the MSCM server and then during the stress test release that queue. The first thing I thought of is to disable the schedulers. We are on a hosted environment so I don't have access to the server itself, so I need to direct someone else to do that work. Does anyone know how to disable the schedulers? I'm unsure what would happen if the fire period in mscm.filters.properties was set 0 or if the scheduler "outbound.scheduler.period" was commented out.