diff --git a/packages/sysutils/busybox/init.d/07_sysctl b/packages/sysutils/busybox/init.d/07_sysctl
index 1a4452e0df..9d0503b25c 100644
--- a/packages/sysutils/busybox/init.d/07_sysctl
+++ b/packages/sysutils/busybox/init.d/07_sysctl
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ progress "setup sysctl"
   ## In other situations, you can make things worse, since you are
   ## effectively giving less memory for applications.
   ########################################################################
-  echo 8192 > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
+  echo 16384 > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
 
   if [ -f /etc/sysctl.conf ]; then
     sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf  > /dev/null 2>&1 &