Index: src/java/org/apache/nutch/crawl/Crawler.java
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--- src/java/org/apache/nutch/crawl/Crawler.java	(revision 1297139)
+++ src/java/org/apache/nutch/crawl/Crawler.java	(working copy)
@@ -207,15 +207,16 @@
   @Override
   public int run(String[] args) throws Exception {
     if (args.length == 0) {
-      System.out.println("Usage: Crawler (<seedDir> | -continue) [-solr <solrURL>] [-threads n] [-depth i] [-topN N]");
+      System.out.println("Usage: Crawler (<seedDir> | -continue) [-solr <solrURL>] [-threads n] [-depth i] [-topN N] [-numTasks N]");
       return -1;
     }
     // parse most common arguments here
     String seedDir = null;
-    int threads = getConf().getInt("fetcher.threads.fetch", 10);
+    int threads = getConf().getInt("fetcher.threads.fetch", 10);    
     int depth = 5;
     long topN = Long.MAX_VALUE;
     String solrUrl = null;
+    Integer numTasks = null;
     
     for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
       if ("-threads".equals(args[i])) {
@@ -226,10 +227,13 @@
         i++;
       } else if ("-topN".equals(args[i])) {
           topN = Integer.parseInt(args[i+1]);
-          i++;
+          i++; 
       } else if ("-solr".equals(args[i])) {
         solrUrl = StringUtils.lowerCase(args[i + 1]);
         i++;
+      } else if ("-numTasks".equals(args[i])) {
+    	  numTasks = Integer.parseInt(args[i+1]);
+          i++;
       } else if ("-continue".equals(args[i])) {
         // skip
       } else if (args[i] != null) {
@@ -241,7 +245,8 @@
         Nutch.ARG_DEPTH, depth,
         Nutch.ARG_TOPN, topN,
         Nutch.ARG_SOLR, solrUrl,
-        Nutch.ARG_SEEDDIR, seedDir);
+        Nutch.ARG_SEEDDIR, seedDir,
+        Nutch.ARG_NUMTASKS, numTasks);
     run(argMap);
     return 0;
   }