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diff --git a/lib/config/config.default.yml b/lib/config/config.default.yml
index 22e2c58b78..e60880c217 100644
--- a/lib/config/config.default.yml
+++ b/lib/config/config.default.yml
@@ -919,6 +919,15 @@ Clusters:
       # configured, and has no effect on top-level containers.
       AlwaysUsePreemptibleInstances: false
 
+      # Automatically add a preemptible variant for every
+      # non-preemptible entry in InstanceTypes below. The maximum bid
+      # price for the preemptible variant will be the non-preemptible
+      # price multiplied by PreemptiblePriceFactor. If 0, preemptible
+      # variants are not added automatically.
+      #
+      # A price factor of 1.0 is a reasonable starting point.
+      PreemptiblePriceFactor: 0
+
       # PEM encoded SSH key (RSA, DSA, or ECDSA) used by the
       # cloud dispatcher for executing containers on worker VMs.
       # Begins with "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\n"
@@ -960,15 +969,25 @@ Clusters:
       # A zero value disables this feature.
       #
       # In order for this feature to be activated, no volume may use
-      # AccessViaHosts, and each volume must have Replication higher
-      # than Collections.DefaultReplication. If these requirements are
-      # not satisfied, the feature is disabled automatically
-      # regardless of the value given here.
+      # AccessViaHosts, and no writable volume may have Replication
+      # lower than Collections.DefaultReplication. If these
+      # requirements are not satisfied, the feature is disabled
+      # automatically regardless of the value given here.
+      #
+      # When an HPC dispatcher is in use (see SLURM and LSF sections),
+      # this feature depends on the operator to ensure an up-to-date
+      # cluster configuration file (/etc/arvados/config.yml) is
+      # available on all compute nodes. If it is missing or not
+      # readable by the crunch-run user, the feature will be disabled
+      # automatically. To read it from a different location, add a
+      # "-config=/path/to/config.yml" argument to
+      # CrunchRunArgumentsList above.
       #
-      # Note that when this configuration is enabled, the entire
-      # cluster configuration file, including the system root token,
-      # is copied to the worker node and held in memory for the
-      # duration of the container.
+      # When the cloud dispatcher is in use (see CloudVMs section) and
+      # this configuration is enabled, the entire cluster
+      # configuration file, including the system root token, is copied
+      # to the worker node and held in memory for the duration of the
+      # container.
       LocalKeepBlobBuffersPerVCPU: 1
 
       # When running a dedicated keepstore process for a container