diff --git a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/using-spring-boot.adoc b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/using-spring-boot.adoc
index 121ac77a535..85888cc06f3 100644
--- a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/using-spring-boot.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/using-spring-boot.adoc
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ You might also want to use the useful operating system environment variable:
 
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-	$ export MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=128M -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom
+	$ export MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=128M
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 (The "`egd`" setting is to speed up Tomcat startup by giving it a faster source of
@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ You might also want to use this useful operating system environment variable:
 
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-	$ export JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=128M -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom
+	$ export JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=128M
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