diff --git a/pageserver/src/page_service.rs b/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
index 96056f060a..61e21a1cd5 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
@@ -284,6 +284,8 @@ async fn page_service_conn_main(
     socket.set_timeout(Some(std::time::Duration::from_millis(socket_timeout_ms)));
     let socket = Box::pin(socket);
 
+    let socket = tokio::io::BufStream::with_capacity(128<<10, 128<<10, socket);
+
     fail::fail_point!("ps::connection-start::pre-login");
 
     // XXX: pgbackend.run() should take the connection_ctx,