diff --git a/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/AbstractConnector.java b/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/AbstractConnector.java
index 96ff17812fb..232f96ac97f 100644
--- a/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/AbstractConnector.java
+++ b/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/AbstractConnector.java
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ import org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.Scheduler;
  * <li>call the {@link #getDefaultConnectionFactory()} {@link ConnectionFactory#newConnection(Connector, org.eclipse.jetty.io.EndPoint)}
  * method to create a new Connection instance.</li>
  * </ol>
- * The default number of acceptor tasks is the minimum of 1 and half the number of available CPUs. Having more acceptors may reduce
+ * The default number of acceptor tasks is the minimum of 1 and the number of available CPUs divided by 8. Having more acceptors may reduce
  * the latency for servers that see a high rate of new connections (eg HTTP/1.0 without keep-alive).  Typically the default is
  * sufficient for modern persistent protocols (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 etc.)
  */
diff --git a/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/ServerConnector.java b/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/ServerConnector.java
index 52df1828fe6..db6a05e17f8 100644
--- a/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/ServerConnector.java
+++ b/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/ServerConnector.java
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ import org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.Scheduler;
  * that these callbacks may do some non-blocking IO work, but will always dispatch to the
  * {@link Executor} service any blocking, long running or application tasks.
  * <p>
- * The default number of selectors is equal to the number of processors available to the JVM,
+ * The default number of selectors is equal to half of the number of processors available to the JVM,
  * which should allow optimal performance even if all the connections used are performing
  * significant non-blocking work in the callback tasks.
  */