diff --git a/runtime/src/accounts_db.rs b/runtime/src/accounts_db.rs
index cf5ce4d238a427..02f28e571e1a85 100644
--- a/runtime/src/accounts_db.rs
+++ b/runtime/src/accounts_db.rs
@@ -4392,7 +4392,7 @@ impl AccountsDb {
             } else {
                 false
             };
-            if is_candidate || (can_randomly_shrink && thread_rng().gen_range(0, 100) == 0) {
+            if is_candidate || (can_randomly_shrink && thread_rng().gen_range(0, 10000) == 0) {
                 // we are a candidate for shrink, so either append us to the previous append vec
                 // or recreate us as a new append vec and eliminate the dead accounts
                 info!(