diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 759e6932c..72cd71f22 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -435,7 +435,8 @@ learning_rate: 0.00003
 logging_steps:
 save_steps:
 eval_steps:
-save_total_limit:
+save_total_limit: # checkpoints saved at a time
+max_steps:
 
 # save model as safetensors (require safetensors package)
 save_safetensors: