Merge pull request #236 from LSSTDESC/u/jchiang/disable_ckpt_tracking

disable checkpoint summary by default

data/default_imsim_configs

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ catalog = default
 [checkpointing]
 nobj = 500
 cleanup = True
+do_summary = False
 
 [wl_params]
 gamma2_sign = -1

python/desc/imsim/ImageSimulator.py

@@ -253,8 +253,10 @@ def run(self, processes=1, wait_time=None, node_id=0):
         # Set the CHECKPOINT_SUMMARY variable so that the summary info
         # from the subprocesses can be persisted.
         global CHECKPOINT_SUMMARY
+        do_checkpoint_summary = self.config['checkpointing']['do_summary']
+
         if (self.file_id is not None and processes > 1 and
-            CHECKPOINT_SUMMARY is None):
+            CHECKPOINT_SUMMARY is None and do_checkpoint_summary):
             db_file = 'ckpt_{}_{}.sqlite3'.format(self.file_id, node_id)
             CHECKPOINT_SUMMARY = CheckpointSummary(db_file=db_file)
 

travis_test.sh

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ pip install coveralls
 pip install pylint
 git clone https://github.com/lsst/obs_lsst.git
 cd obs_lsst
+git checkout dc2/run2.1
 setup -r . -j
 
 # Build the obs_lsst package, but avoid the time consuming and lengthy