Index: docs/topics/settings.rst
===================================================================
--- docs/topics/settings.rst (revision 1843:133d5e60dded)
+++ docs/topics/settings.rst (revision 1844:2b62ebaf5f98)
@@ -726,8 +726,8 @@
 :setting:`REQUEST_HANDLERS` instead. 
 
-.. setting:: REQUESTS_PER_SPIDER
-
-REQUESTS_PER_SPIDER
--------------------
+.. setting:: CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_SPIDER
+
+CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_SPIDER
+------------------------------
 
 Default: ``8``
Index: scrapy/conf/default_settings.py
===================================================================
--- scrapy/conf/default_settings.py (revision 1843:133d5e60dded)
+++ scrapy/conf/default_settings.py (revision 1844:2b62ebaf5f98)
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@
 
 CONCURRENT_ITEMS = 100
-
+CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_SPIDER = 8
 CONCURRENT_SPIDERS = 8
 
@@ -137,5 +137,4 @@
 
 REQUESTS_QUEUE_SIZE = 0
-REQUESTS_PER_SPIDER = 8     # max simultaneous requests per domain
 
 # contrib.middleware.retry.RetryMiddleware default settings
Index: scrapy/core/downloader/manager.py
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--- scrapy/core/downloader/manager.py (revision 1831:ad452e19e3cc)
+++ scrapy/core/downloader/manager.py (revision 1844:2b62ebaf5f98)
@@ -28,5 +28,5 @@
             self.max_concurrent_requests = 1
         elif max_concurrent_requests is None:
-            self.max_concurrent_requests = settings.getint('REQUESTS_PER_SPIDER')
+            self.max_concurrent_requests = settings.getint('CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_SPIDER')
         else:
             self.max_concurrent_requests =  max_concurrent_requests