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 How long to keep redacted events in unredacted form in the database. After
 this period redacted events get replaced with their redacted form in the DB.
 
+Synapse will check whether the rentention period has concluded for redacted
+events every 5 minutes. Thus, even if this option is set to `0`, Synapse may
+still take up to 5 minutes to purge redacted events from the database.
+
 Defaults to `7d`. Set to `null` to disable.
 
 Example configuration: