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diff --git a/debian/tor.default b/debian/tor.default
index 237e5bc520..1ae1e15861 100644
--- a/debian/tor.default
+++ b/debian/tor.default
@@ -9,10 +9,15 @@ RUN_DAEMON="yes"
#
# Servers sometimes may need more than the default 1024 file descriptors
-# if they are very busy and have many clients connected to them.
+# if they are very busy and have many clients connected to them. The top
+# servers as of early 2008 regularly have more than 10000 connected
+# clients.
# (ulimit -n)
#
-MAX_FILEDESCRIPTORS=8192
+# (the default varies as it depends on the number of available system-wide file
+# descriptors. See the init script in /etc/init.d/tor for details.)
+#
+# MAX_FILEDESCRIPTORS=
#
# If tor is seriously hogging your CPU, taking away too much cycles from