1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 1b830cac461..dd52d516cb8 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -224,15 +224,14 @@ tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
         The value is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled.
 
 tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
-        Time to hold socket in state FIN-WAIT-2, if it was closed
-        by our side. Peer can be broken and never close its side,
-        or even died unexpectedly. Default value is 60sec.
-        Usual value used in 2.2 was 180 seconds, you may restore
-        it, but remember that if your machine is even underloaded WEB server,
-        you risk to overflow memory with kilotons of dead sockets,
-        FIN-WAIT-2 sockets are less dangerous than FIN-WAIT-1,
-        because they eat maximum 1.5K of memory, but they tend
-        to live longer. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
+        The length of time an orphaned (no longer referenced by any
+        application) connection will remain in the FIN_WAIT_2 state
+        before it is aborted at the local end.  While a perfectly
+        valid "receive only" state for an un-orphaned connection, an
+        orphaned connection in FIN_WAIT_2 state could otherwise wait
+        forever for the remote to close its end of the connection.
+        Cf. tcp_max_orphans
+        Default: 60 seconds
 
 tcp_frto - INTEGER
         Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC4138.