diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2477d0b0..6b9d3552 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1841,7 +1841,7 @@ func main() {
 
 	// Wait for interrupt signal to gracefully shutdown the server with
 	// a timeout of 5 seconds.
-	quit := make(chan os.Signal)
+	quit := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
 	// kill (no param) default send syscall.SIGTERM
 	// kill -2 is syscall.SIGINT
 	// kill -9 is syscall.SIGKILL but can't be caught, so don't need to add it