diff --git a/nephele/nephele-server/src/main/java/eu/stratosphere/nephele/checkpointing/CheckpointDecisionCoordinator.java b/nephele/nephele-server/src/main/java/eu/stratosphere/nephele/checkpointing/CheckpointDecisionCoordinator.java
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/nephele/nephele-server/src/main/java/eu/stratosphere/nephele/checkpointing/CheckpointDecisionCoordinator.java
+++ b/nephele/nephele-server/src/main/java/eu/stratosphere/nephele/checkpointing/CheckpointDecisionCoordinator.java
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ public final class CheckpointDecisionCoordinator {
 		final List<CheckpointDecision> checkpointDecisionList = new SerializableArrayList<CheckpointDecision>();
 
 		synchronized (graph) {
-			checkpointDecisionList.add(new CheckpointDecision(vertex.getID(), true));
+			checkpointDecisionList.add(new CheckpointDecision(vertex.getID(), false)); // @CHECKPOINT DECISION
 			checkpointDecisions.put(vertex.getAllocatedResource().getInstance(), checkpointDecisionList);
 		}
Disabled Checkpointing by default.