diff --git a/smf/ntp/etc/logadm.d/chrony.logadm.conf b/smf/ntp/etc/logadm.d/chrony.logadm.conf
index a477d19bf5..fc335d658a 100644
--- a/smf/ntp/etc/logadm.d/chrony.logadm.conf
+++ b/smf/ntp/etc/logadm.d/chrony.logadm.conf
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-# Rotate chrony logs daily and keep at most 8 old files.
-# This is daily by virtue of the `logadm` entry in root's crontab only running
-# once a day; the thresholds specified here are >= 1 byte, and now.
-chrony_logs /var/log/chrony/*.log -C 8 -z 3 -p now -s 1b -c -t '$file.$secs'
+# Rotate chrony logs at 10MiB and keep 10 compressed old logs.
+chrony_logs /var/log/chrony/*.log -C 10 -z 0 -s 10m -c -t '$file.$secs'