diff --git a/hbase-common/src/main/resources/hbase-default.xml b/hbase-common/src/main/resources/hbase-default.xml
index 759c3694883..4abefc2bae0 100644
--- a/hbase-common/src/main/resources/hbase-default.xml
+++ b/hbase-common/src/main/resources/hbase-default.xml
@@ -592,8 +592,10 @@ possible configurations would overwhelm and obscure the important.
   </property>
   <property>
     <name>hbase.regions.slop</name>
-    <value>0.2</value>
-    <description>Rebalance if any regionserver has average + (average * slop) regions.</description>
+    <value>0.001</value>
+    <description>Rebalance if any regionserver has average + (average * slop) regions. 
+      The default value of this parameter is 0.001 in StochasticLoadBalancer (the default load balancer),
+      while the default is 0.2 in other load balancers (i.e., SimpleLoadBalancer).</description>
   </property>
   <property>
     <name>hbase.server.thread.wakefrequency</name>