diff --git a/homeassistant/bootstrap.py b/homeassistant/bootstrap.py
index 373c5c0f38c..afb364e6d2f 100644
--- a/homeassistant/bootstrap.py
+++ b/homeassistant/bootstrap.py
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ def async_enable_logging(
                 err_log_path, when="midnight", backupCount=log_rotate_days
             )
         else:
-            err_handler = logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler(
+            err_handler = _RotatingFileHandlerWithoutShouldRollOver(
                 err_log_path, backupCount=1
             )
 
@@ -598,6 +598,19 @@ def async_enable_logging(
     async_activate_log_queue_handler(hass)
 
 
+class _RotatingFileHandlerWithoutShouldRollOver(logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler):
+    """RotatingFileHandler that does not check if it should roll over on every log."""
+
+    def shouldRollover(self, record: logging.LogRecord) -> bool:
+        """Never roll over.
+
+        The shouldRollover check is expensive because it has to stat
+        the log file for every log record. Since we do not set maxBytes
+        the result of this check is always False.
+        """
+        return False
+
+
 async def async_mount_local_lib_path(config_dir: str) -> str:
     """Add local library to Python Path.
 
diff --git a/tests/test_bootstrap.py b/tests/test_bootstrap.py
index de82aba9911..12eb52c06f4 100644
--- a/tests/test_bootstrap.py
+++ b/tests/test_bootstrap.py
@@ -1398,3 +1398,13 @@ async def test_setup_does_base_platforms_first(hass: HomeAssistant) -> None:
     # only that they are setup before other integrations.
     assert set(order[1:3]) == {"sensor", "binary_sensor"}
     assert order[3:] == ["root", "first_dep", "second_dep"]
+
+
+def test_should_rollover_is_always_false():
+    """Test that shouldRollover always returns False."""
+    assert (
+        bootstrap._RotatingFileHandlerWithoutShouldRollOver(
+            "any.log", delay=True
+        ).shouldRollover(Mock())
+        is False
+    )