diff --git a/AMDiS/src/parallel/MeshDistributor.cc b/AMDiS/src/parallel/MeshDistributor.cc
index f31725eff021033c5e51bda4476c13b24ce55d95..2afa491d8ae2029358b707b767b14c0a2cd39f11 100644
--- a/AMDiS/src/parallel/MeshDistributor.cc
+++ b/AMDiS/src/parallel/MeshDistributor.cc
@@ -1716,6 +1716,11 @@ namespace AMDiS {
     MSG("nRankDofs = %d\n", nRankDofs);
     MSG("nOverallDofs = %d\n", nOverallDofs);
     MSG("rstart %d\n", rstart);
+#else
+    int tmp = 0;
+    GET_PARAMETER(0, name + "->write parallel debug file", "%d", &tmp);
+    if (tmp)
+      ParallelDebug::writeDebugFile(*this, debugOutputDir + "mpi-dbg", "dat");
 #endif
   }