diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/FaultHandling.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/FaultHandling.scala
index 7eefda1547..1f9c133276 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/FaultHandling.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/FaultHandling.scala
@@ -372,7 +372,8 @@ abstract class SupervisorStrategy {
  * to all children when one fails, as opposed to [[akka.actor.OneForOneStrategy]] that applies
  * it only to the child actor that failed.
  *
- * @param maxNrOfRetries the number of times an actor is allowed to be restarted, negative value means no limit
+ * @param maxNrOfRetries the number of times a child actor is allowed to be restarted, negative value means no limit,
+ *   if the limit is exceeded the child actor is stopped
  * @param withinTimeRange duration of the time window for maxNrOfRetries, Duration.Inf means no window
  * @param decider mapping from Throwable to [[akka.actor.SupervisorStrategy.Directive]], you can also use a
  *   [[scala.collection.immutable.Seq]] of Throwables which maps the given Throwables to restarts, otherwise escalates.
@@ -418,7 +419,8 @@ case class AllForOneStrategy(
  * to the child actor that failed, as opposed to [[akka.actor.AllForOneStrategy]] that applies
  * it to all children.
  *
- * @param maxNrOfRetries the number of times an actor is allowed to be restarted, negative value means no limit
+ * @param maxNrOfRetries the number of times a child actor is allowed to be restarted, negative value means no limit,
+ *   if the limit is exceeded the child actor is stopped
  * @param withinTimeRange duration of the time window for maxNrOfRetries, Duration.Inf means no window
  * @param decider mapping from Throwable to [[akka.actor.SupervisorStrategy.Directive]], you can also use a
  *   [[scala.collection.immutable.Seq]] of Throwables which maps the given Throwables to restarts, otherwise escalates.
diff --git a/akka-docs/rst/java/fault-tolerance.rst b/akka-docs/rst/java/fault-tolerance.rst
index e7801a5985..8d907fd18d 100644
--- a/akka-docs/rst/java/fault-tolerance.rst
+++ b/akka-docs/rst/java/fault-tolerance.rst
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ failing one). There are limits set on the restart frequency, namely maximum 10
 restarts per minute. ``-1`` and ``Duration.Inf()`` means that the respective limit
 does not apply, leaving the possibility to specify an absolute upper limit on the
 restarts or to make the restarts work infinitely.
+The child actor is stopped if the limit is exceeded.
 
 .. note::
 
diff --git a/akka-docs/rst/scala/fault-tolerance.rst b/akka-docs/rst/scala/fault-tolerance.rst
index ffd0a46122..85d6156010 100644
--- a/akka-docs/rst/scala/fault-tolerance.rst
+++ b/akka-docs/rst/scala/fault-tolerance.rst
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ failing one). There are limits set on the restart frequency, namely maximum 10
 restarts per minute; each of these settings could be left out, which means
 that the respective limit does not apply, leaving the possibility to specify an
 absolute upper limit on the restarts or to make the restarts work infinitely.
+The child actor is stopped if the limit is exceeded.
 
 The match statement which forms the bulk of the body is of type ``Decider``,
 which is a ``PartialFunction[Throwable, Directive]``. This