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@@ -163,3 +163,4 @@ Brian Bouterse, 2014/04/10
 Dmitry Malinovsky, 2014/04/28
 Luke Pomfrey, 2014/05/06
 Alexey Kotlyarov, 2014/05/16
+Tadej Janež, 2014/08/08

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@@ -164,6 +164,12 @@ workers, note that the first worker to start will receive four times the
 number of messages initially.  Thus the tasks may not be fairly distributed
 to the workers.
 
+To disable prefetching, set CELERYD_PREFETCH_MULTIPLIER to 1.  Setting 
+CELERYD_PREFETCH_MULTIPLIER to 0 will allow the worker to keep consuming
+as many messages as it wants.
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+For more on prefetching, read :ref:`optimizing-prefetch-limit`
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 .. note::
 
     Tasks with ETA/countdown are not affected by prefetch limits.