this is actually 7 days in milliseconds.
> so I checked the source code. the value seems that should be in fact 7. > current default value means 1.6 thousand millenniums . > > <property> > <name>crawl.gen.delay</name> > <value>604800000</value> > <description> > This value, expressed in days, defines how long we should keep the lock > on records in CrawlDb that were just selected for fetching. If these > records are not updated in the meantime, the lock is canceled, i.e. the > become eligible for selecting. Default value of this is 7 days. > </description> > </property>

