diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/JVMStabilityInspector.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/JVMStabilityInspector.java
index 95f3f3da35..96bc6f7cbb 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/JVMStabilityInspector.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/JVMStabilityInspector.java
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ public final class JVMStabilityInspector
     {
         if (FORCE_HEAP_OOM_IGNORE_SET.contains(oom.getMessage()))
             return;
-        logger.error("Off-heap OutOfMemoryError detected, forcing a heap OutOfMemoryError to trigger standard JVM OOM handling:", oom);
+        logger.error("Non-heap OutOfMemoryError detected, forcing a heap OutOfMemoryError to trigger standard JVM OOM handling:", oom);
         // Start to produce heap space OOM forcibly.
         List<long[]> ignored = new ArrayList<>();
         while (true)