diff --git a/akka-docs/src/main/paradox/cluster-sharding.md b/akka-docs/src/main/paradox/cluster-sharding.md
index 4213d072df..de7d6759c4 100644
--- a/akka-docs/src/main/paradox/cluster-sharding.md
+++ b/akka-docs/src/main/paradox/cluster-sharding.md
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ e.g. with @ref:[Persistence](persistence.md).
 
 The performance cost of `rememberEntities` is rather high when starting/stopping entities and when
 shards are rebalanced. This cost increases with number of entities per shard and we currently don't
-recommend using it with more than 10000 entities per shard.
+recommend using it with more than 10000 active (non passivated) entities per shard.
 
 ## Supervision