diff --git a/ompi/mca/btl/openib/help-mpi-btl-openib.txt b/ompi/mca/btl/openib/help-mpi-btl-openib.txt
index b8ce27334e..7b89ace1c7 100644
--- a/ompi/mca/btl/openib/help-mpi-btl-openib.txt
+++ b/ompi/mca/btl/openib/help-mpi-btl-openib.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #                         All rights reserved.
 # Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Cisco Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 # Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Mellanox Technologies. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2009      Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 # $COPYRIGHT$
 # 
 # Additional copyrights may follow
@@ -207,7 +208,7 @@ respect to the retry count:
 * btl_openib_ib_retry_count - The number of times the sender will
   attempt to retry (defaulted to 7, the maximum value).
 * btl_openib_ib_timeout - The local ACK timeout parameter (defaulted
-  to 10).  The actual timeout value used is calculated as:
+  to 20).  The actual timeout value used is calculated as:
 
      4.096 microseconds * (2^btl_openib_ib_timeout)