diff --git a/compute_tools/src/compute.rs b/compute_tools/src/compute.rs
index a79b666409..41a52ef5b6 100644
--- a/compute_tools/src/compute.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/compute.rs
@@ -873,9 +873,8 @@ impl ComputeNode {
         Ok(())
     }
 
-    // We could've wrapped this around `pg_ctl reload`, but right now we don't use
-    // `pg_ctl` for start / stop, so this just seems much easier to do as we already
-    // have opened connection to Postgres and superuser access.
+    // Wrapped this around `pg_ctl reload`, but right now we don't use
+    // `pg_ctl` for start / stop.
     #[instrument(skip_all)]
     fn pg_reload_conf(&self) -> Result<()> {
         let pgctl_bin = Path::new(&self.pgbin).parent().unwrap().join("pg_ctl");
diff --git a/compute_tools/src/pg_helpers.rs b/compute_tools/src/pg_helpers.rs
index fa0822748b..863fa9468f 100644
--- a/compute_tools/src/pg_helpers.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/pg_helpers.rs
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ pub fn handle_postgres_logs(stderr: std::process::ChildStderr) -> JoinHandle<()>
 /// Read Postgres logs from `stderr` until EOF. Buffer is flushed on one of the following conditions:
 /// - next line starts with timestamp
 /// - EOF
-/// - no new lines were written for the last second
+/// - no new lines were written for the last 100 milliseconds
 async fn handle_postgres_logs_async(stderr: tokio::process::ChildStderr) -> Result<()> {
     let mut lines = tokio::io::BufReader::new(stderr).lines();
     let timeout_duration = Duration::from_millis(100);