diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e356e6027..875747acc 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3419,18 +3419,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "enum-as-inner"
-version = "0.6.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a1e6a265c649f3f5979b601d26f1d05ada116434c87741c9493cb56218f76cbc"
-dependencies = [
- "heck",
- "proc-macro2",
- "quote",
- "syn 2.0.113",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "enum_dispatch"
 version = "0.3.13"
@@ -7767,6 +7755,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "hyper",
  "hyper-util",
  "jemalloc_pprof",
+ "libc",
  "libsystemd",
  "libunftp",
  "matchit 0.9.1",
@@ -7815,7 +7804,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "socket2",
  "ssh-key",
  "subtle",
- "sysctl",
  "sysinfo",
  "thiserror 2.0.17",
  "tikv-jemalloc-ctl",
@@ -9680,20 +9668,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.113",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "sysctl"
-version = "0.7.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "cca424247104946a59dacd27eaad296223b7feec3d168a6dd04585183091eb0b"
-dependencies = [
- "bitflags 2.10.0",
- "byteorder",
- "enum-as-inner",
- "libc",
- "thiserror 2.0.17",
- "walkdir",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "sysinfo"
 version = "0.37.2"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 90ec90650..083860d27 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -234,7 +234,6 @@ snafu = "0.8.9"
 snap = "1.1.1"
 starshard = { version = "0.6.0", features = ["rayon", "async", "serde"] }
 strum = { version = "0.27.2", features = ["derive"] }
-sysctl = "0.7.1"
 sysinfo = "0.37.2"
 temp-env = "0.3.6"
 tempfile = "3.24.0"
diff --git a/rustfs/Cargo.toml b/rustfs/Cargo.toml
index c50548cd1..df2f23d9a 100644
--- a/rustfs/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rustfs/Cargo.toml
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ url = { workspace = true }
 urlencoding = { workspace = true }
 uuid = { workspace = true }
 zip = { workspace = true }
+libc = { workspace = true }
 
 # Observability and Metrics
 metrics = { workspace = true }
@@ -135,9 +136,6 @@ russh = { workspace = true }
 russh-sftp = { workspace = true }
 ssh-key = { workspace = true }
 
-[target.'cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd", target_os = "netbsd", target_os = "openbsd"))'.dependencies]
-sysctl = { workspace = true }
-
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
 libsystemd.workspace = true
 
diff --git a/rustfs/src/server/http.rs b/rustfs/src/server/http.rs
index 3f3473b71..90589dd49 100644
--- a/rustfs/src/server/http.rs
+++ b/rustfs/src/server/http.rs
@@ -743,34 +743,58 @@ fn check_auth(req: Request<()>) -> std::result::Result<Request<()>, Status> {
     Ok(req)
 }
 
+// For macOS and BSD variants use the syscall way of getting the connection queue length.
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd", target_os = "netbsd", target_os = "openbsd"))]
+#[allow(unsafe_code)]
+fn get_conn_queue_len() -> i32 {
+    const DEFAULT_BACKLOG: i32 = 1024;
+
+    #[cfg(target_os = "openbsd")]
+    let mut name = [libc::CTL_KERN, libc::KERN_SOMAXCONN];
+    #[cfg(any(target_os = "netbsd", target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
+    let mut name = [libc::CTL_KERN, libc::KERN_IPC, libc::KIPC_SOMAXCONN];
+    let mut buf = [0; 1];
+    let mut buf_len = std::mem::size_of_val(&buf);
+
+    if unsafe {
+        libc::sysctl(
+            name.as_mut_ptr(),
+            name.len() as u32,
+            buf.as_mut_ptr() as *mut libc::c_void,
+            &mut buf_len,
+            std::ptr::null_mut(),
+            0,
+        )
+    } != 0
+    {
+        return DEFAULT_BACKLOG;
+    }
+
+    buf[0]
+}
+
 /// Determines the listen backlog size.
 ///
 /// It tries to read the system's maximum connection queue length (`somaxconn`).
 /// If reading fails, it falls back to a default value (e.g., 1024).
 /// This makes the backlog size adaptive to the system configuration.
 fn get_listen_backlog() -> i32 {
-    const DEFAULT_BACKLOG: i32 = 1024;
-
     #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
     {
+        const DEFAULT_BACKLOG: i32 = 1024;
+
         // For Linux, read from /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn
         match std::fs::read_to_string("/proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn") {
             Ok(s) => s.trim().parse().unwrap_or(DEFAULT_BACKLOG),
             Err(_) => DEFAULT_BACKLOG,
         }
     }
+
     #[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd", target_os = "netbsd", target_os = "openbsd"))]
     {
-        // For macOS and BSD variants, use sysctl
-        use sysctl::Sysctl;
-        match sysctl::Ctl::new("kern.ipc.somaxconn") {
-            Ok(ctl) => match ctl.value() {
-                Ok(sysctl::CtlValue::Int(val)) => val,
-                _ => DEFAULT_BACKLOG,
-            },
-            Err(_) => DEFAULT_BACKLOG,
-        }
+        get_conn_queue_len()
     }
+
     #[cfg(not(any(
         target_os = "linux",
         target_os = "macos",