diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
index a33e6c5507..2d5f82d736 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
@@ -7960,18 +7960,16 @@ hint.sio.7.irq="12"</programlisting>
     <qandaset>
       <qandaentry>
 	<question id="more-swap">
-	  <para>&os; uses far more swap space than &linux;.  Why?</para>
+	  <para>&os; a lot of swap space even when the computer has
+	    free memory left.  Why?</para>
 	</question>
 
 	<answer>
-	  <para>&os; only appears to use more swap than &linux;.  In
-	    actual fact, it does not.  The main difference between &os;
-	    and &linux; in this regard is that &os; will proactively
+	  <para>&os; will proactively
 	    move entirely idle, unused pages of main memory into swap in
 	    order to make more main memory available for active use.
-	    &linux; tends to only move pages to swap as a last resort.
-	    The perceived heavier use of swap is balanced by the more
-	    efficient use of main memory.</para>
+	    This heavy use of swap is balanced by using the extra free
+	    memory for cacheing.</para>
 
 	  <para>Note that while &os; is proactive in this regard, it
 	    does not arbitrarily decide to swap pages when the system is