diff --git a/gio/gtask.c b/gio/gtask.c
index 2b4720de8..b533a18cf 100644
--- a/gio/gtask.c
+++ b/gio/gtask.c
@@ -1528,9 +1528,9 @@ g_task_start_task_thread (GTask           *task,
  *
  * Although GLib currently rate-limits the tasks queued via
  * g_task_run_in_thread(), you should not assume that it will always
- * do this. If you have a very large number of tasks to run, but don't
- * want them to all run at once, you should only queue a limited
- * number of them at a time.
+ * do this. If you have a very large number of tasks to run (several tens of
+ * tasks), but don't want them to all run at once, you should only queue a
+ * limited number of them (around ten) at a time.
  *
  * Since: 2.36
  */