lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm | 2 +-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm
index d07620a87215892a846ac0112ea6ad271bed5700..8fc49eee67e9c0b564f1d0800284a8eec05f52d0 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@     # if we're using epoll, we have to remove this from our epoll fd so we stop getting
     # notifications about it
     if ($HaveEpoll) {
         my $fd = fileno($sock);
-        epoll_ctl($Epoll, EPOLL_CTL_DEL, $fd, $self->{event_watch}) and
+        epoll_ctl($Epoll, EPOLL_CTL_DEL, $fd, 0) and
             confess("EPOLL_CTL_DEL: $!");
     }