diff --git a/chrony.texi.in b/chrony.texi.in
index 895b9d5..639b58d 100644
--- a/chrony.texi.in
+++ b/chrony.texi.in
@@ -1355,9 +1355,11 @@ directive}).
 @subsection clientloglimit
 This directive specifies the maximum size of the memory allocated to
 log client accesses.  When the limit is reached, only information for
-clients that have already been logged will be updated.  If 0 is
-specified, the memory size will be unlimited.  The default is 524288
-bytes.
+clients that have already been logged will be updated.  The default is
+524288 bytes.
+
+In older @code{chrony} versions if the limit was set to 0, the memory
+allocation was unlimited.
 
 An example of the use of this directive is
 
diff --git a/conf.c b/conf.c
index 5626696..3fbdbc0 100644
--- a/conf.c
+++ b/conf.c
@@ -862,11 +862,6 @@ parse_clientloglimit(char *line)
   if (sscanf(line, "%lu", &client_log_limit) != 1) {
     command_parse_error();
   }
-
-  if (client_log_limit == 0) {
-    /* unlimited */
-    client_log_limit = (unsigned long)-1;
-  }
 }
 
 /* ================================================== */