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diff --git a/docs/rabbitmqctl.1.xml b/docs/rabbitmqctl.1.xml
index 174f5bc2..73347cea 100644
--- a/docs/rabbitmqctl.1.xml
+++ b/docs/rabbitmqctl.1.xml
@@ -992,9 +992,10 @@
Number of active consumers. An active consumer is
one which could immediately receive any messages
sent to the queue - i.e. it is not limited by its
- prefetch count or TCP congestion. At least one of
- messages_ready and active_consumers must always be
- zero.
+ prefetch count, TCP congestion, flow control, or
+ because it has issued channel.flow. At least one
+ of messages_ready and active_consumers must always
+ be zero.
</para>
<para>
Note that this value is an instantaneous snapshot