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diff --git a/src/pager.c b/src/pager.c
index 40e74d91a..ca4716e6e 100644
--- a/src/pager.c
+++ b/src/pager.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
** file simultaneously, or one process from reading the database while
** another is writing.
**
-** @(#) $Id: pager.c,v 1.500 2008/10/29 07:01:57 danielk1977 Exp $
+** @(#) $Id: pager.c,v 1.501 2008/11/03 20:55:07 drh Exp $
*/
#ifndef SQLITE_OMIT_DISKIO
#include "sqliteInt.h"
@@ -3401,7 +3401,9 @@ int sqlite3PagerIswriteable(DbPage *pPg){
/*
** A call to this routine tells the pager that it is not necessary to
** write the information on page pPg back to the disk, even though
-** that page might be marked as dirty.
+** that page might be marked as dirty. This happens, for example, when
+** the page has been added as a leaf of the freelist and so its
+** content no longer matters.
**
** The overlying software layer calls this routine when all of the data
** on the given page is unused. The pager marks the page as clean so