diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
index 4f28b03c67..def8e336c1 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
@@ -684,38 +684,38 @@ impl Timeline {
     ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
         const ROUNDS: usize = 2;
 
-        static CONCURRENT_COMPACTIONS: once_cell::sync::Lazy<tokio::sync::Semaphore> =
-            once_cell::sync::Lazy::new(|| {
-                let total_threads = *task_mgr::BACKGROUND_RUNTIME_WORKER_THREADS;
-                let permits = usize::max(
-                    1,
-                    // while a lot of the work is done on spawn_blocking, we still do
-                    // repartitioning in the async context. this should give leave us some workers
-                    // unblocked to be blocked on other work, hopefully easing any outside visible
-                    // effects of restarts.
-                    //
-                    // 6/8 is a guess; previously we ran with unlimited 8 and more from
-                    // spawn_blocking.
-                    (total_threads * 3).checked_div(4).unwrap_or(0),
-                );
-                assert_ne!(permits, 0, "we will not be adding in permits later");
-                assert!(
-                    permits < total_threads,
-                    "need threads avail for shorter work"
-                );
-                tokio::sync::Semaphore::new(permits)
-            });
+        // static CONCURRENT_COMPACTIONS: once_cell::sync::Lazy<tokio::sync::Semaphore> =
+        //     once_cell::sync::Lazy::new(|| {
+        //         let total_threads = *task_mgr::BACKGROUND_RUNTIME_WORKER_THREADS;
+        //         let permits = usize::max(
+        //             1,
+        //             // while a lot of the work is done on spawn_blocking, we still do
+        //             // repartitioning in the async context. this should give leave us some workers
+        //             // unblocked to be blocked on other work, hopefully easing any outside visible
+        //             // effects of restarts.
+        //             //
+        //             // 6/8 is a guess; previously we ran with unlimited 8 and more from
+        //             // spawn_blocking.
+        //             (total_threads * 3).checked_div(4).unwrap_or(0),
+        //         );
+        //         assert_ne!(permits, 0, "we will not be adding in permits later");
+        //         assert!(
+        //             permits < total_threads,
+        //             "need threads avail for shorter work"
+        //         );
+        //         tokio::sync::Semaphore::new(permits)
+        //     });
 
-        // this wait probably never needs any "long time spent" logging, because we already nag if
-        // compaction task goes over it's period (20s) which is quite often in production.
-        let _permit = tokio::select! {
-            permit = CONCURRENT_COMPACTIONS.acquire() => {
-                permit
-            },
-            _ = cancel.cancelled() => {
-                return Ok(());
-            }
-        };
+        // // this wait probably never needs any "long time spent" logging, because we already nag if
+        // // compaction task goes over it's period (20s) which is quite often in production.
+        // let _permit = tokio::select! {
+        //     permit = CONCURRENT_COMPACTIONS.acquire() => {
+        //         permit
+        //     },
+        //     _ = cancel.cancelled() => {
+        //         return Ok(());
+        //     }
+        // };
 
         let last_record_lsn = self.get_last_record_lsn();