diff --git a/src/riak_kv_wterl_backend.erl b/src/riak_kv_wterl_backend.erl
index 0d9aa51..fd6be1e 100644
--- a/src/riak_kv_wterl_backend.erl
+++ b/src/riak_kv_wterl_backend.erl
@@ -412,15 +412,13 @@ establish_connection(Config, Type) ->
                 orddict:from_list(
                   [ wterl:config_value(create, Config, true),
                     wterl:config_value(sync, Config, false),
-                    wterl:config_value(logging, Config, true),
                     wterl:config_value(session_max, Config, max_sessions(Config)),
                     wterl:config_value(cache_size, Config, size_cache(RequestedCacheSize)),
-                    wterl:config_value(statistics_log, Config, [{wait, 300}]), % sec
+                    wterl:config_value(statistics_log, Config, [{wait, 600}]), % in seconds
                     wterl:config_value(verbose, Config, [ "salvage", "verify"
                          % Note: for some unknown reason, if you add these additional
                          % verbose flags Erlang SEGV's "size_object: bad tag for 0x80"
                          % no idea why... yet... you've been warned.
-
                          %"block", "shared_cache", "reconcile", "evict", "lsm",
                          %"fileops", "read", "write", "readserver", "evictserver",
                          %"hazard", "mutex", "ckpt"
diff --git a/tools/wterl-b_b.config b/tools/wterl-b_b.config
index 2a89f99..5ce92cc 100644
--- a/tools/wterl-b_b.config
+++ b/tools/wterl-b_b.config
@@ -38,8 +38,6 @@
         {connection, [
                       {create, true},
                       {sync, false},
-                      {logging, true},
-                      {transactional, true},
                       {session_max, 1024},
                       {cache_size, 4294967296},
                       {verbose, []},