diff --git a/pageserver/src/bin/pageserver.rs b/pageserver/src/bin/pageserver.rs
index 1400ef0e31..7dcf6465e2 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/bin/pageserver.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/bin/pageserver.rs
@@ -322,7 +322,8 @@ fn start_pageserver(
     // Scan the local 'tenants/' directory and start loading the tenants
     BACKGROUND_RUNTIME.block_on(mgr::init_tenant_mgr(conf, remote_storage.clone()))?;
 
-    // shared state between the background task and the http endpoint; note that the http endpoint
+    // shared state between the disk-usage backed eviction background task and the http endpoint
+    // that allows triggering disk-usage based eviction manually. note that the http endpoint
     // is still accessible even if background task is not configured as long as remote storage has
     // been configured.
     let disk_usage_eviction_state: Arc<DiskUsageEvictionState> = Arc::default();
diff --git a/pageserver/src/disk_usage_eviction_task.rs b/pageserver/src/disk_usage_eviction_task.rs
index 38aeaf275a..e0083c11bb 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/disk_usage_eviction_task.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/disk_usage_eviction_task.rs
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ pub struct DiskUsageEvictionTaskConfig {
 
 #[derive(Default)]
 pub struct DiskUsageEvictionState {
-    /// Exclude http requests and background task from running at the same time.
+    /// Prevent mgmt API requests and the background loop from running eviction at the same time.
     mutex: tokio::sync::Mutex<()>,
 }