diff --git a/src/comm_tiled.cpp b/src/comm_tiled.cpp
index b1a8d6aef2..9f0169568d 100644
--- a/src/comm_tiled.cpp
+++ b/src/comm_tiled.cpp
@@ -557,15 +557,15 @@ void CommTiled::setup()
     }
   }
 
-  // reallocate MPI Requests and Statuses as needed
+  // reallocate MPI Requests as needed
 
   int nmax = 0;
   for (i = 0; i < nswap; i++) nmax = MAX(nmax,nprocmax[i]);
   for (i = 0; i < dimension; i++) nmax = MAX(nmax,nexchprocmax[i]);
-  if (nmax > maxreqstat) {
-    maxreqstat = nmax;
+  if (nmax > maxrequest) {
+    maxrequest = nmax;
     delete [] requests;
-    requests = new MPI_Request[maxreqstat];
+    requests = new MPI_Request[maxrequest];
   }
 }
 
@@ -2098,7 +2098,7 @@ void CommTiled::allocate_swap(int n)
     sendlist[i] = NULL;
   }
 
-  maxreqstat = 0;
+  maxrequest = 0;
   requests = NULL;
 
   for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
diff --git a/src/comm_tiled.h b/src/comm_tiled.h
index 4ffde2a47e..aa8867b2c3 100644
--- a/src/comm_tiled.h
+++ b/src/comm_tiled.h
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ class CommTiled : public Comm {
   int smaxall,rmaxall;          // max size in atoms of any borders send/recv
                                 //   for comm to all procs in one swap
 
-  int maxreqstat;               // max size of Request and Status vectors
+  int maxrequest;               // max size of Request vector
   MPI_Request *requests;
 
   struct RCBinfo {