diff --git a/shared/ff_common/src/thread.cc b/shared/ff_common/src/thread.cc
index 9ce3efa7d1..192fc92623 100644
--- a/shared/ff_common/src/thread.cc
+++ b/shared/ff_common/src/thread.cc
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ void* ff_common::HolderFunction(void* ptr) {
 }
 
 ff_common::ThreadPool::ThreadPool()
-  : max_concurrent_jobs_(FLAGS_num_threads) {
+  //: max_concurrent_jobs_(FLAGS_num_threads) {
+  : max_concurrent_jobs_(30) {
   pthread_mutex_init(&cond_mutex_, NULL);
   pthread_cond_init(&cond_, NULL);
   if (max_concurrent_jobs_ <= 0) {
diff --git a/tools/localization_analysis/scripts/groundtruth_sweep.py b/tools/localization_analysis/scripts/groundtruth_sweep.py
index f0479a58f7..bbbffed756 100755
--- a/tools/localization_analysis/scripts/groundtruth_sweep.py
+++ b/tools/localization_analysis/scripts/groundtruth_sweep.py
@@ -72,9 +72,6 @@ def check_params(groundtruth_params_list):
         if not os.path.isfile(params.base_surf_map):
             print(("Base surf map " + params.base_surf_map + " does not exist."))
             sys.exit()
-        if not os.path.isdir(params.maps_directory):
-            print(("Maps directory " + params.maps_directory + " does not exist."))
-            sys.exit()
         if not os.path.isfile(params.loc_map):
             print(("Loc map " + params.loc_map + " does not exist."))
             sys.exit()
@@ -118,7 +115,7 @@ def groundtruth_sweep(config_file, num_processes):
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "config_file",
-        help="Config file containing arguments for each job to run.  Should be formatted with one job per line and using a single space between each argument.  Arguments for a job in order are: bagfile base_surf_map maps_directory loc_map config_path world image_topic robot_name use_image_features.  See make_groundtruth.py description for more details on each argument.",
+        help="Config file containing arguments for each job to run.  Should be formatted with one job per line and using a single space between each argument.  Arguments for a job in order are: bagfile base_surf_map loc_map image_topic use_image_features.  See make_groundtruth.py description for more details on each argument.",
     )
     parser.add_argument("-o", "--output-directory", default="groundtruth_sweep")
     parser.add_argument(