diff --git a/docs/concepts/architecture/nodes.md b/docs/concepts/architecture/nodes.md
index 38441b3ca5..9cd54bfeac 100644
--- a/docs/concepts/architecture/nodes.md
+++ b/docs/concepts/architecture/nodes.md
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ you are doing [manual node administration](#manual-node-administration), then yo
 capacity when adding a node.
 
 The Kubernetes scheduler ensures that there are enough resources for all the pods on a node.  It
-checks that the sum of the limits of containers on the node is no greater than the node capacity.  It
+checks that the sum of the requests of containers on the node is no greater than the node capacity.  It
 includes all containers started by the kubelet, but not containers started directly by Docker nor
 processes not in containers.
 
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ spec:
   - name: sleep-forever
     image: gcr.io/google_containers/pause:0.8.0
     resources:
-      limits:
+      requests:
         cpu: 100m
         memory: 100Mi
 ```