Update refinery_config.md

Co-authored-by: Kent Quirk <[email protected]>
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@@ -1016,7 +1016,8 @@ When `distributed`, Refinery will instead keep spans on the node where they were
 This can reduce the amount of traffic between peers in most cases, and can help avoid a situation where a single large trace can cause a memory overrun on a single node.
 If `distributed`, the amount of traffic between peers will be reduced, but the amount of traffic between Refinery and Redis will significantly increase, because Refinery uses Redis to distribute the trace decisions to all nodes in the cluster.
 It is important to adjust the size of the Redis cluster in this case.
-NOTE: This setting is not compatible with `DryRun` when set to true.
+The total volume of network traffic in `distributed` mode should be expected to decrease unless the cluster size is very large (hundreds of nodes). 
+NOTE: This setting is not compatible with `DryRun` when set to `distributed`.
 See `DryRun` for more information.
 
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