diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 778ff19fec..d023d340d4 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3254,11 +3254,11 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "inotify"
-version = "0.11.0"
+version = "0.9.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f37dccff2791ab604f9babef0ba14fbe0be30bd368dc541e2b08d07c8aa908f3"
+checksum = "f8069d3ec154eb856955c1c0fbffefbf5f3c40a104ec912d4797314c1801abff"
 dependencies = [
- "bitflags 2.8.0",
+ "bitflags 1.3.2",
  "inotify-sys",
  "libc",
 ]
@@ -3732,6 +3732,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "adler2",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "mio"
+version = "0.8.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a4a650543ca06a924e8b371db273b2756685faae30f8487da1b56505a8f78b0c"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "log",
+ "wasi 0.11.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1",
+ "windows-sys 0.48.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "mio"
 version = "1.0.3"
@@ -3739,7 +3751,6 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2886843bf800fba2e3377cff24abf6379b4c4d5c6681eaf9ea5b0d15090450bd"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
- "log",
  "wasi 0.11.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1",
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
@@ -3817,29 +3828,23 @@ checksum = "38bf9645c8b145698bb0b18a4637dcacbc421ea49bef2317e4fd8065a387cf21"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "notify"
-version = "8.0.0"
+version = "6.1.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2fee8403b3d66ac7b26aee6e40a897d85dc5ce26f44da36b8b73e987cc52e943"
+checksum = "6205bd8bb1e454ad2e27422015fb5e4f2bcc7e08fa8f27058670d208324a4d2d"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 2.8.0",
+ "crossbeam-channel",
  "filetime",
  "fsevent-sys",
  "inotify",
  "kqueue",
  "libc",
  "log",
- "mio",
- "notify-types",
+ "mio 0.8.11",
  "walkdir",
- "windows-sys 0.59.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.48.0",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "notify-types"
-version = "2.0.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5e0826a989adedc2a244799e823aece04662b66609d96af8dff7ac6df9a8925d"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "ntapi"
 version = "0.4.1"
@@ -4980,7 +4985,7 @@ checksum = "22505a5c94da8e3b7c2996394d1c933236c4d743e81a410bcca4e6989fc066a4"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "heck",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools 0.12.1",
  "log",
  "multimap",
  "once_cell",
@@ -5021,7 +5026,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "81bddcdb20abf9501610992b6759a4c888aef7d1a7247ef75e2404275ac24af1"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools 0.12.1",
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
  "syn 2.0.90",
@@ -7123,7 +7128,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "backtrace",
  "bytes",
  "libc",
- "mio",
+ "mio 1.0.3",
  "parking_lot 0.12.1",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "signal-hook-registry",
@@ -8387,7 +8392,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "hyper-util",
  "indexmap 1.9.3",
  "indexmap 2.0.1",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
  "itertools 0.12.1",
  "lazy_static",
  "libc",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c59c4c5435..4a32b6d95d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -126,7 +126,9 @@ measured = { version = "0.0.22", features=["lasso"] }
 measured-process = { version = "0.0.22" }
 memoffset = "0.9"
 nix = { version = "0.27", features = ["dir", "fs", "process", "socket", "signal", "poll"] }
-notify = "8.0.0"
+# Do not update to >= 7.0.0, at least. The update will have a significant impact
+# on compute startup metrics (start_postgres_ms), >= 25% degradation.
+notify = "6.0.0"
 num_cpus = "1.15"
 num-traits = "0.2.15"
 once_cell = "1.13"
diff --git a/workspace_hack/Cargo.toml b/workspace_hack/Cargo.toml
index 4a6ab6e745..183cc66ab9 100644
--- a/workspace_hack/Cargo.toml
+++ b/workspace_hack/Cargo.toml
@@ -47,8 +47,7 @@ hyper-dff4ba8e3ae991db = { package = "hyper", version = "1", features = ["full"]
 hyper-util = { version = "0.1", features = ["client-legacy", "http1", "http2", "server", "service"] }
 indexmap-dff4ba8e3ae991db = { package = "indexmap", version = "1", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 indexmap-f595c2ba2a3f28df = { package = "indexmap", version = "2", features = ["serde"] }
-itertools-5ef9efb8ec2df382 = { package = "itertools", version = "0.12" }
-itertools-93f6ce9d446188ac = { package = "itertools", version = "0.10" }
+itertools = { version = "0.12" }
 lazy_static = { version = "1", default-features = false, features = ["spin_no_std"] }
 libc = { version = "0.2", features = ["extra_traits", "use_std"] }
 log = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
@@ -115,8 +114,7 @@ half = { version = "2", default-features = false, features = ["num-traits"] }
 hashbrown = { version = "0.14", features = ["raw"] }
 indexmap-dff4ba8e3ae991db = { package = "indexmap", version = "1", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 indexmap-f595c2ba2a3f28df = { package = "indexmap", version = "2", features = ["serde"] }
-itertools-5ef9efb8ec2df382 = { package = "itertools", version = "0.12" }
-itertools-93f6ce9d446188ac = { package = "itertools", version = "0.10" }
+itertools = { version = "0.12" }
 libc = { version = "0.2", features = ["extra_traits", "use_std"] }
 log = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 memchr = { version = "2" }