diff --git a/source/core/transactions-production-consideration.txt b/source/core/transactions-production-consideration.txt
index 0e3dcbc6e88..9dd2132b15a 100644
--- a/source/core/transactions-production-consideration.txt
+++ b/source/core/transactions-production-consideration.txt
@@ -125,6 +125,13 @@ The :parameter:`transactionLifetimeLimitSeconds` also ensures that
 expired transactions are aborted periodically to relieve storage cache
 pressure.
 
+.. note::
+
+   If you have an uncommitted transaction that exceeds 5% of the
+   :setting:`WiredTiger cache size
+   <storage.wiredTiger.engineConfig.cacheSizeGB>`, the transaction will
+   abort and return a :term:`write conflict` error.
+
 Transactions and Security
 -------------------------