diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-asyncmeta.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-asyncmeta.5
index 743d3efabc..84341d321c 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-asyncmeta.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-asyncmeta.5
@@ -54,8 +54,7 @@ works with a configured maximum number of connections per target.
 For each request redirected to a target, a different connection is selected.
 Each connection has a queue, to which the request is added before it is sent to the
 remote server, and is removed after the last response for that request is received.
- For each new request, the connection with the smallest number of pending requests
-is selected, or using round\-robin if the numbers are equal.
+ For each new request, a new connection is chosen using round\-robin scheduling.
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 .B Overlays:
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