diff --git a/include/libtorrent/disk_io_thread.hpp b/include/libtorrent/disk_io_thread.hpp
index 2b02931e3..b275ca535 100644
--- a/include/libtorrent/disk_io_thread.hpp
+++ b/include/libtorrent/disk_io_thread.hpp
@@ -309,7 +309,6 @@ namespace libtorrent
 		// and the write cache. This is not supposed to
 		// exceed m_cache_size
 		cache_status m_cache_stats;
-		int m_num_cached_blocks;
 
 #ifdef TORRENT_DISK_STATS
 		std::ofstream m_log;