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docs/practices/workflows/benchmarking_synthetic_workloads.md

@@ -65,12 +65,15 @@ Generates a native token transfer workload involving the accounts provided in `-
 ```command
 cargo run --release -- benchmark-native-transfers --help
 ```
-
-Automatic calculation of transactions per second (TPS) when RPC requests are sent with `wait_until: NONE` is coming up shortly. In the meantime, they can be calculated manually by querying the `near_transaction_processed_successfully_total` metric, e.g. with:
-
-```command
-http localhost:3030/metrics | grep transaction_processed
+For the native transfer benchmark transactions are sent with `wait_until: None`, meaning the responses the `near_synth_bm` tool receives are basically just an ACK by the RPC confirming it received the transaction.
+Thus the numbers reported by the tool as if in
+```
+[2025-01-27T14:05:12Z INFO  near_synth_bm::native_transfer] Sent 200000 txs in 6.50 seconds
+[2025-01-27T14:05:12Z INFO  near_synth_bm::rpc] Received 200000 tx responses in 6.49 seconds
 ```
+are not directly indicative of the runtime performance.
+The number of transactions actually processed may be obtained by querying the `near_transaction_processed_successfully_total` metric, e.g. with: `http://localhost:3030/metrics | grep transaction_processed`.
+Automatic calculation of transactions per second (TPS) when RPC requests are sent with `wait_until: NONE` is coming up shortly.
 
 ### Benchmark calls to the `sign` method of an MPC contract