diff --git a/package/base-files/files/etc/init.d/sysctl b/package/base-files/files/etc/init.d/sysctl
index 4db56444c7c6e1..b25db9fab3267d 100755
--- a/package/base-files/files/etc/init.d/sysctl
+++ b/package/base-files/files/etc/init.d/sysctl
@@ -4,29 +4,6 @@
 START=11
 
 apply_defaults() {
-	local mem="$(awk '/^MemTotal:/ {print $2}' /proc/meminfo)"
-	local min_free frag_low_thresh frag_high_thresh
-
-	if [ "$mem" -gt 65536 ]; then # 128M
-		min_free=16384
-	elif [ "$mem" -gt 32768 ]; then # 64M
-		min_free=8192
-	else
-		min_free=1024
-		frag_low_thresh=393216
-		frag_high_thresh=524288
-	fi
-
-	sysctl -qw vm.min_free_kbytes="$min_free"
-
-	[ "$frag_low_thresh" ] && sysctl -qw \
-		net.ipv4.ipfrag_low_thresh="$frag_low_thresh" \
-		net.ipv4.ipfrag_high_thresh="$frag_high_thresh" \
-		net.ipv6.ip6frag_low_thresh="$frag_low_thresh" \
-		net.ipv6.ip6frag_high_thresh="$frag_high_thresh" \
-		net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_frag6_low_thresh="$frag_low_thresh" \
-		net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_frag6_high_thresh="$frag_high_thresh"
-
 	# first set default, then all interfaces to avoid races with appearing interfaces
 	if [ -d /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf ]; then
 		echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/accept_ra