diff --git a/src/redis.c b/src/redis.c
index 889772c37588bfcbfc4e26d4e3c5a83b5df2037a..423c8c3a840369b5394f20d334abe67f49d911d5 100644
--- a/src/redis.c
+++ b/src/redis.c
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ void updateDictResizePolicy(void) {
  * it will get more aggressive to avoid that too much memory is used by
  * keys that can be removed from the keyspace.
  *
- * No more than REDIS_DBCRON_DBS_PER_SEC databases are tested at every
+ * No more than REDIS_DBCRON_DBS_PER_CALL databases are tested at every
  * iteration. */
 void activeExpireCycle(void) {
     static unsigned int current_db = 0;
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ void activeExpireCycle(void) {
     timelimit = 1000000*REDIS_EXPIRELOOKUPS_TIME_PERC/server.hz/100;
     if (timelimit <= 0) timelimit = 1;
 
-    for (j = 0; j < REDIS_DBCRON_DBS_PER_SEC; j++) {
+    for (j = 0; j < REDIS_DBCRON_DBS_PER_CALL; j++) {
         int expired;
         redisDb *db = server.db+(current_db % server.dbnum);
 
@@ -844,14 +844,14 @@ void databasesCron(void) {
         unsigned int j;
 
         /* Resize */
-        for (j = 0; j < REDIS_DBCRON_DBS_PER_SEC; j++) {
+        for (j = 0; j < REDIS_DBCRON_DBS_PER_CALL; j++) {
             tryResizeHashTables(resize_db % server.dbnum);
             resize_db++;
         }
 
         /* Rehash */
         if (server.activerehashing) {
-            for (j = 0; j < REDIS_DBCRON_DBS_PER_SEC; j++) {
+            for (j = 0; j < REDIS_DBCRON_DBS_PER_CALL; j++) {
                 int work_done = incrementallyRehash(rehash_db % server.dbnum);
                 rehash_db++;
                 if (work_done) {
diff --git a/src/redis.h b/src/redis.h
index abdb4709a38e2d79ad06cfda2efe0742f1f3291d..d4d4f571d15394529b05d7c5f2b09b4aebdabed1 100644
--- a/src/redis.h
+++ b/src/redis.h
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 #define REDIS_CONFIGLINE_MAX    1024
 #define REDIS_EXPIRELOOKUPS_PER_CRON    10 /* lookup 10 expires per loop */
 #define REDIS_EXPIRELOOKUPS_TIME_PERC   25 /* CPU max % for keys collection */
-#define REDIS_DBCRON_DBS_PER_SEC 16
+#define REDIS_DBCRON_DBS_PER_CALL 16
 #define REDIS_MAX_WRITE_PER_EVENT (1024*64)
 #define REDIS_SHARED_SELECT_CMDS 10
 #define REDIS_SHARED_INTEGERS 10000