diff --git a/cpp/testNonlinearOptimizer.cpp b/cpp/testNonlinearOptimizer.cpp
index 237740e84..942566d92 100644
--- a/cpp/testNonlinearOptimizer.cpp
+++ b/cpp/testNonlinearOptimizer.cpp
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ using namespace boost;
 using namespace gtsam;
 using namespace example;
 
-// FIXME:  this tolerance is too high - something is wrong with the noisemodel
 const double tol = 1e-6;
 
 typedef NonlinearOptimizer<Graph,Config> Optimizer;