diff --git a/pulsar-broker/src/main/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/loadbalance/impl/LinuxBrokerHostUsageImpl.java b/pulsar-broker/src/main/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/loadbalance/impl/LinuxBrokerHostUsageImpl.java
index 9e97e3d8156c5..3db221a79d847 100644
--- a/pulsar-broker/src/main/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/loadbalance/impl/LinuxBrokerHostUsageImpl.java
+++ b/pulsar-broker/src/main/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/loadbalance/impl/LinuxBrokerHostUsageImpl.java
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ private double getTotalCpuUsageForCGroup(double elapsedTimeSeconds) {
      * </pre>
      *
      * Line is split in "words", filtering the first. The sum of all numbers give the amount of cpu cycles used this
-     * far. Real CPU usage should equal the sum subtracting the idle cycles(that is idle+iowait), this would include
+     * far. Real CPU usage should equal the sum after subtracting the idle cycles (that is idle+iowait), this would include
      * cpu, user, nice, system, irq, softirq, steal, guest and guest_nice.
      */
     private double getTotalCpuUsageForEntireHost() {