diff --git a/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/KafkaProducer.java b/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/KafkaProducer.java
index ebd1746362c04..a7e867e1063e2 100644
--- a/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/KafkaProducer.java
+++ b/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/KafkaProducer.java
@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@
  * Properties props = new Properties();
  * props.put("bootstrap.servers", "localhost:9092");
  * props.put("acks", "all");
+ * props.put("retries", 0);
+ * props.put("linger.ms", 1);
  * props.put("key.serializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer");
  * props.put("value.serializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer");
  *