diff --git a/usr.sbin/ntp/doc/ntp.conf.5 b/usr.sbin/ntp/doc/ntp.conf.5
index efbc983fd0d5..0f3d29341d17 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/ntp/doc/ntp.conf.5
+++ b/usr.sbin/ntp/doc/ntp.conf.5
@@ -2965,7 +2965,7 @@ Probably only available under Linux, this option may be useful
 when dropping root (the
 .Fl i
 option).
-The default is 32 megabytes on non\-Linux machines, and \-1 under Linux.
+The default is \-1.
 -1 means "do not lock the process into memory".
 0 means "lock whatever memory the process wants into memory".
 .It Cm stacksize Ar N4kPages