diff --git a/src/libsystemd-bus/bus-kernel.h b/src/libsystemd-bus/bus-kernel.h
index 9515e8f05f..c4573c9222 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd-bus/bus-kernel.h
+++ b/src/libsystemd-bus/bus-kernel.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
 /* This determines at which minimum size we prefer sending memfds over
  * sending vectors */
-#define MEMFD_MIN_SIZE (96*1024)
+#define MEMFD_MIN_SIZE (128*1024)
 
 /* The size of the per-connection memory pool that we set up and where
  * the kernel places our incoming messages */