diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5cbf5d4..85c0fde 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@
 - An `alert_notification` or an `outbind` from the peer is logged and left unanswered, as SMPP 3.4
   gives neither a response. Each one used to emit `sessionError`, `"alert_notification" has no
   response command`.
-- `maxOctets` charges each held segment 1000 octets beyond its own, and each TLV on it, every repeat
-  included, 300 more. Segments of empty fields or thousands of empty TLVs used to count as next to
-  nothing, so a peer could hold far more than the cap. **Raise a `maxOctets` you tuned low**: it now
+- `maxOctets` charges each held segment 1000 octets beyond its own, 300 more per TLV on it, and 300
+  per occurrence of a repeatable one. Segments of empty fields or thousands of empty TLVs used to
+  count as next to nothing, so a peer could hold far more than the cap. **Raise a `maxOctets` you tuned low**: it now
   holds a sixth to a tenth as many segments, and an incomplete message evicted over the cap is lost,
   since its segments were already answered.
 - `server()` refuses a `maxOctets` below 1 or not a whole number, `Infinity` included, like its
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f77a711..ab71fd2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ All optional. Timeouts are milliseconds.
 | `tls` | `false` | A `tls.TlsOptions` object with your certificate and key. A bare `true` is refused. |
 | `idleTimeout` | `40000` | Drop a peer that has been silent this long. |
 | `maxReassembly` | `1000` | Incomplete multipart messages held per session. |
-| `maxOctets` | `67108864` | Roughly the memory incomplete multipart messages may hold per session: each held segment counts its octets plus 1000, and each TLV on it, every repeat included, 300 more. |
+| `maxOctets` | `67108864` | Roughly the memory incomplete multipart messages may hold per session: each held segment counts its octets plus 1000, 300 more per TLV on it, and 300 per occurrence of a repeatable one. |
 | `reassemblyTimeout` | `300000` | How long a late segment can still join an incomplete message. |
 | `responseTimeout`, `shutdownTimeout`, `maxOutstanding`, `log`, `signal` | as for the client | |