diff --git src/java/org/apache/nutch/crawl/CrawlDbReducer.java src/java/org/apache/nutch/crawl/CrawlDbReducer.java
index bf43ac5..bf4d8dd 100644
--- src/java/org/apache/nutch/crawl/CrawlDbReducer.java
+++ src/java/org/apache/nutch/crawl/CrawlDbReducer.java
@@ -50,9 +50,7 @@ public class CrawlDbReducer implements Reducer<Text, CrawlDatum, Text, CrawlDatu
     retryMax = job.getInt("db.fetch.retry.max", 3);
     scfilters = new ScoringFilters(job);
     additionsAllowed = job.getBoolean(CrawlDb.CRAWLDB_ADDITIONS_ALLOWED, true);
-    int oldMaxInterval = job.getInt("db.max.fetch.interval", 0);
     maxInterval = job.getInt("db.fetch.interval.max", 0 );
-    if (oldMaxInterval > 0 && maxInterval == 0) maxInterval = oldMaxInterval * FetchSchedule.SECONDS_PER_DAY;
     schedule = FetchScheduleFactory.getFetchSchedule(job);
     int maxLinks = job.getInt("db.update.max.inlinks", 10000);
     linked = new InlinkPriorityQueue(maxLinks);
diff --git src/java/org/apache/nutch/crawl/Generator.java src/java/org/apache/nutch/crawl/Generator.java
index f0568fd..5be2d35 100644
--- src/java/org/apache/nutch/crawl/Generator.java
+++ src/java/org/apache/nutch/crawl/Generator.java
@@ -74,9 +74,6 @@ public class Generator extends Configured implements Tool {
   public static final String GENERATOR_DELAY = "crawl.gen.delay";
   public static final String GENERATOR_MAX_NUM_SEGMENTS = "generate.max.num.segments";
   
-  // deprecated parameters 
-  public static final String GENERATE_MAX_PER_HOST_BY_IP = "generate.max.per.host.by.ip";
-
   public static class SelectorEntry implements Writable {
     public Text url;
     public CrawlDatum datum;
@@ -505,10 +502,6 @@ public class Generator extends Configured implements Tool {
       LOG.info("Generator: topN: " + topN);
     }
     
-    if ("true".equals(getConf().get(GENERATE_MAX_PER_HOST_BY_IP))){
-      LOG.info("Generator: GENERATE_MAX_PER_HOST_BY_IP will be ignored, use partition.url.mode instead");
-    }
-
     // map to inverted subset due for fetch, sort by score
     JobConf job = new NutchJob(getConf());
     job.setJobName("generate: select from " + dbDir);