diff --git a/pageserver/src/disk_usage_eviction_task.rs b/pageserver/src/disk_usage_eviction_task.rs
index 5079e11f77..145dff1880 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/disk_usage_eviction_task.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/disk_usage_eviction_task.rs
@@ -559,9 +559,9 @@ async fn collect_eviction_candidates(
         // `min_resident_size` defaults to maximum layer file size of the tenant.
         // This ensures that each tenant can have at least one layer resident at a given time,
         // ensuring forward progress for a single Timeline::get in that tenant.
-        // It's a questionable heuristic since there are many Timeline::get
-        // requests going on and multiple layers are needed, and, at least in Neon prod,
-        // the median layer file size is much smaller than the compaction target size.
+        // It's a questionable heuristic since, usually, there are many Timeline::get
+        // requests going on for a tenant, and, at least in Neon prod, the median
+        // layer file size is much smaller than the compaction target size.
         // We could be better here, e.g., sum of all L0 layers + most recent L1 layer.
         // That's what's typically used by the various background loops.
         //