diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index c5e26f7130..0beca25181 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 Nutch Change Log
 
 Release nutchgora - Current Development
+* NUTCH-1354 nutchgora support fetcher.queue.depth.multiplier property (ferdy)
+
 * NUTCH-1353 nutchgora DomainStatistics support crawlId, counter bug and reformatting (ferdy)
 
 * NUTCH-1350 remove unused dependancy because of access restriction (ferdy)
diff --git a/conf/nutch-default.xml b/conf/nutch-default.xml
index e0811d8bc6..71312ebb41 100644
--- a/conf/nutch-default.xml
+++ b/conf/nutch-default.xml
@@ -686,6 +686,16 @@
   </description>
 </property>
 
+<property>
+  <name>fetcher.queue.depth.multiplier</name>
+  <value>50</value>
+  <description>(EXPERT)The fetcher buffers the incoming URLs into queues based on the [host|domain|IP]
+  (see param fetcher.queue.mode). The depth of the queue is the number of threads times the value of this parameter.
+  A large value requires more memory but can improve the performance of the fetch when the order of the URLS in the fetch list
+  is not optimal.
+  </description>
+</property>
+
 <!-- indexingfilter plugin properties -->
 
 <property>
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/nutch/fetcher/FetcherReducer.java b/src/java/org/apache/nutch/fetcher/FetcherReducer.java
index fbdba823d8..056be60995 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/nutch/fetcher/FetcherReducer.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/nutch/fetcher/FetcherReducer.java
@@ -775,7 +775,8 @@ public void run(Context context)
     }
     LOG.info("Fetcher: threads: " + threadCount);
 
-    feeder = new QueueFeeder(context, fetchQueues, threadCount * 50);
+    int maxFeedPerThread = conf.getInt("fetcher.queue.depth.multiplier", 50);
+    feeder = new QueueFeeder(context, fetchQueues, threadCount * maxFeedPerThread);
     feeder.start();
 
     for (int i = 0; i < threadCount; i++) {       // spawn threads