diff --git a/pitest-entry/src/main/java/org/pitest/mutationtest/tooling/MutationCoverage.java b/pitest-entry/src/main/java/org/pitest/mutationtest/tooling/MutationCoverage.java
index 648dfac90..83a642559 100644
--- a/pitest-entry/src/main/java/org/pitest/mutationtest/tooling/MutationCoverage.java
+++ b/pitest-entry/src/main/java/org/pitest/mutationtest/tooling/MutationCoverage.java
@@ -377,9 +377,8 @@ private CoverageGenerator coverage() {
     return this.strategies.coverage();
   }
 
-  // For reasons not yet understood classes from rt.jar are not resolved for some
-  // projects during static analysis phase. For now fall back to the classloader when
-  // a class not provided by project classpath
+  // Since java 9 rt.jar is no longer on the classpath so jdk classes will not resolve from
+  // the filesystem and must be pulled out via the classloader
   private ClassByteArraySource fallbackToClassLoader(final ClassByteArraySource bas) {
     final ClassByteArraySource clSource = ClassloaderByteArraySource.fromContext();
     return clazz -> {
@@ -387,7 +386,6 @@ private ClassByteArraySource fallbackToClassLoader(final ClassByteArraySource ba
       if (maybeBytes.isPresent()) {
         return maybeBytes;
       }
-      LOG.log(Level.FINE, "Could not find " + clazz + " on classpath for analysis. Falling back to classloader");
       return clSource.getBytes(clazz);
     };
   }