diff --git a/multi-node/hadoop/mushroom.hadoop.conf b/multi-node/hadoop/mushroom.hadoop.conf
index 305b82dd3..a40c950a7 100644
--- a/multi-node/hadoop/mushroom.hadoop.conf
+++ b/multi-node/hadoop/mushroom.hadoop.conf
@@ -24,7 +24,5 @@ data = stdin
 # The path of model file
 model_out = stdout 
 
-# The path of validation data, used to monitor training process, here [test] sets name of the validation set
-eval[test] = "agaricus.txt.test" 
 # evaluate on training data as well each round
 eval_train = 1