diff --git a/RTCP/Cobalt/GPUProc/src/rtcp.cc b/RTCP/Cobalt/GPUProc/src/rtcp.cc
index 1ff48c06c6924c2bb07fbe36fe96ab400ab61779..51a3c6bf11ff616ced5358d3e4950e643232a127 100644
--- a/RTCP/Cobalt/GPUProc/src/rtcp.cc
+++ b/RTCP/Cobalt/GPUProc/src/rtcp.cc
@@ -187,11 +187,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
   if (setenv("TZ", "UTC", 1) < 0)
     THROW_SYSCALL("setenv(TZ)");
 
-  // Restrict access to (tmp build) files we create to owner
-  // JD: Don't do that! We want to be able to clean up each other's
-  // mess.
-  // umask(S_IRGRP | S_IWGRP | S_IXGRP | S_IROTH | S_IWOTH | S_IXOTH);
-
   // Create a parameters set object based on the inputs
   LOG_INFO("----- Reading Parset");
   Parset ps(argv[optind]);
diff --git a/RTCP/Cobalt/GPUProc/test/testParset.sh b/RTCP/Cobalt/GPUProc/test/testParset.sh
index 0992861cd8b368857e322e1a13a2984d363fa0bd..62f40049ba63559a8f2b7218bdc6fc26b8068ba8 100755
--- a/RTCP/Cobalt/GPUProc/test/testParset.sh
+++ b/RTCP/Cobalt/GPUProc/test/testParset.sh
@@ -125,11 +125,10 @@ function parse_logs
 #disabled, as we do not use it atm and the ops nrs are out-of-date, but it is time-consuming)
 #  runObservation.sh -F -l 4 -p $PARSET > performance_profiled.txt 2>&1 || error "Profiling observation failed"
 
-  # check logs
+  # check logs for performance degradation (disabled, checks not good enough and operation counts out-of-date)
 #  parse_logs performance_normal.txt performance_profiled.txt || error "Could not parse log files"
-  parse_logs performance_normal.txt || error "Could not parse log files"
 
   # toss output if everything is ok, but do not fail test if removal fails
-  rm -rf $testdir/$OUTDIR || true # Comment this line for output
+#  rm -rf $testdir/$OUTDIR || true # Comment this line for output
 ) || exit 1