diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index cc72ba7e8ab..52d61013c5f 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@ dependencies.
 
 The tests do a lot of stress testing, and on some machines it is 
 necessary to set the file descriptor limit to greater than 2048
-for the tests to all pass successfully.
+for the tests to all pass successfully.