diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 9368a3806..1476f14ce 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ entries and the number of free disk quota entries.
 .TP
 .IR /proc/sys/fs/epoll " (since Linux 2.6.28)"
 This directory contains files
-.IR " max_user_instances " and " max_user_watches ,
+.IR max_user_instances " and " max_user_watches ,
 which can be used to limit the amount of kernel memory consumed by the
 .I epoll
 interface.