diff --git a/libs/postgres_ffi/wal_craft/src/lib.rs b/libs/postgres_ffi/wal_craft/src/lib.rs
index c4404b37ba..feec3b2ace 100644
--- a/libs/postgres_ffi/wal_craft/src/lib.rs
+++ b/libs/postgres_ffi/wal_craft/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 use anyhow::*;
 use core::time::Duration;
 use log::*;
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use postgres::types::PgLsn;
 use postgres::Client;
 use postgres_ffi::{WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE, XLOG_BLCKSZ};
@@ -26,15 +25,13 @@ pub struct PostgresServer {
     client_config: postgres::Config,
 }
 
-pub static REQUIRED_POSTGRES_CONFIG: Lazy<Vec<&'static str>> = Lazy::new(|| {
-    vec![
-        "wal_keep_size=50MB",            // Ensure old WAL is not removed
-        "shared_preload_libraries=neon", // can only be loaded at startup
-        // Disable background processes as much as possible
-        "wal_writer_delay=10s",
-        "autovacuum=off",
-    ]
-});
+pub static REQUIRED_POSTGRES_CONFIG: [&str; 4] = [
+    "wal_keep_size=50MB",            // Ensure old WAL is not removed
+    "shared_preload_libraries=neon", // can only be loaded at startup
+    // Disable background processes as much as possible
+    "wal_writer_delay=10s",
+    "autovacuum=off",
+];
 
 impl Conf {
     pub fn pg_distrib_dir(&self) -> anyhow::Result<PathBuf> {
diff --git a/pageserver/src/task_mgr.rs b/pageserver/src/task_mgr.rs
index 86d1266f09..3462f4eb82 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/task_mgr.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/task_mgr.rs
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ pub struct PageserverTaskId(u64);
 
 /// Each task that we track is associated with a "task ID". It's just an
 /// increasing number that we assign. Note that it is different from tokio::task::Id.
-static NEXT_TASK_ID: Lazy<AtomicU64> = Lazy::new(|| AtomicU64::new(1));
+static NEXT_TASK_ID: AtomicU64 = AtomicU64::new(1);
 
 /// Global registry of tasks
 static TASKS: Lazy<Mutex<HashMap<u64, Arc<PageServerTask>>>> =
diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/block_io.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/block_io.rs
index bbcdabe1cd..ab36754c9e 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/block_io.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/block_io.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 use crate::page_cache;
 use crate::page_cache::{ReadBufResult, PAGE_SZ};
 use bytes::Bytes;
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use std::ops::{Deref, DerefMut};
 use std::os::unix::fs::FileExt;
 use std::sync::atomic::AtomicU64;
@@ -117,7 +116,7 @@ where
     }
 }
 
-static NEXT_ID: Lazy<AtomicU64> = Lazy::new(|| AtomicU64::new(1));
+static NEXT_ID: AtomicU64 = AtomicU64::new(1);
 
 /// An adapter for reading a (virtual) file using the page cache.
 ///