diff --git a/sysctl.d/50-default.conf b/sysctl.d/50-default.conf
index def151bb84..2097551c33 100644
--- a/sysctl.d/50-default.conf
+++ b/sysctl.d/50-default.conf
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ net.ipv4.conf.all.promote_secondaries = 1
 # Fair Queue CoDel packet scheduler to fight bufferbloat
 net.core.default_qdisc = fq_codel
 
+# Make sure we can queue more than just a few datagrams in AF_UNIX sockets.
+net.unix.max_dgram_qlen = 512
+
 # Enable hard and soft link protection
 fs.protected_hardlinks = 1
 fs.protected_symlinks = 1