diff --git a/cmd/http/listen_nix.go b/cmd/http/listen_nix.go
index 0904e8df4..07ca5f7fb 100644
--- a/cmd/http/listen_nix.go
+++ b/cmd/http/listen_nix.go
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ import (
 var cfg = &tcplisten.Config{
 	DeferAccept: true,
 	FastOpen:    true,
+	// Bump up the soMaxConn value from 128 to 2048 to
+	// handle large incoming concurrent requests.
+	Backlog: 2048,
 }
 
 // Unix listener with special TCP options.