diff --git a/nixos/modules/tahoe.nix b/nixos/modules/tahoe.nix
index cd7306d64adf955515f44884df04dffcc4d40a5a..330474912a0eb9aecc98fbb71cef9e7f9da15b39 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/tahoe.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/tahoe.nix
@@ -229,13 +229,12 @@ in
               # listening ports and such.  This currently doesn't factor into
               # our choice but perhaps it could somehow.
               #
+              # Tahoe-LAFS has no logic to raise soft limit to hard limit so
+              # make it the same.
+              #
               # There is only one IPv4 address assigned to each host right
               # now. So it makes sense to have the limit be 2^15 right now.
               LimitNOFILE = 32768;
-
-              # Tahoe-LAFS has no logic to raise soft limit to hard limit so
-              # make it the same.
-              LimitNOFILESoft = 32768;
             };
             preStart =
             let