diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
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--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
@@ -4422,33 +4422,14 @@ IO range check 0x00 activate 0x01</screen>
         </question>
         <answer>
           <para>
-            This error is caused when you have exhausted the number of
-            available file descriptors on your system.  The file table in
-            memory is full.
-          </para>
-          <para>The solution:</para>
-          <para>
-            Manually adjust the <varname>kern.maxfiles</varname> kernel limit
-            setting.
-          </para>
-          <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=n</userinput></screen>
-          <para>Adjust <varname>n</varname> according to your system needs.
-            Each open file, socket, or fifo uses one file descriptor.
-            A large-scale server may easily require tens of thousands of
-            file descriptors (10,000+), depending on the kind and number
-            of services running concurrently.</para>
-          <para>The number of default file descriptors set in the kernel is
-            dictated by the</para>
-          <programlisting>maxusers        32</programlisting>
-          <para><varname>maxusers</varname> line in your kernel
-            config file.  Increasing this will proportionally increase
-            <varname>kern.maxfiles</varname>.
-          </para>
-          <para>You can see what <varname>kern.maxfiles</varname> is
-            currently set to by:
-          </para>
-          <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sysctl kern.maxfiles</userinput>
-kern.maxfiles: 1064</screen>
+            This error message indicates you have exhausted the number
+            of available file descriptors on your system.  Please see
+            the <ulink
+            url="../handbook/configtuning-kernel-limits.html#KERN-MAXFILES">kern.maxfiles
+            </ulink>section of the <ulink
+            url="../handbook/configtuning-kernel-limits.html">Tuning
+            Kernel Limits</ulink> section of the Handbook for a
+            discussion and solution.</para>
         </answer>
       </qandaentry>