diff --git a/accounts-db/src/accounts_db.rs b/accounts-db/src/accounts_db.rs
index b16d5700157609..7fb83232411a14 100644
--- a/accounts-db/src/accounts_db.rs
+++ b/accounts-db/src/accounts_db.rs
@@ -121,9 +121,8 @@ const SCAN_SLOT_PAR_ITER_THRESHOLD: usize = 4000;
 
 const UNREF_ACCOUNTS_BATCH_SIZE: usize = 10_000;
 
-pub const DEFAULT_FILE_SIZE: u64 = 4 * 1024 * 1024;
-pub const DEFAULT_NUM_THREADS: u32 = 8;
-pub const DEFAULT_NUM_DIRS: u32 = 4;
+const DEFAULT_FILE_SIZE: u64 = 4 * 1024 * 1024;
+const DEFAULT_NUM_DIRS: u32 = 4;
 
 // When calculating hashes, it is helpful to break the pubkeys found into bins based on the pubkey value.
 // More bins means smaller vectors to sort, copy, etc.