diff --git a/backend/local/fadvise_other.go b/backend/local/fadvise_other.go
deleted file mode 100644
index c07a7d01c..000000000
--- a/backend/local/fadvise_other.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-//go:build !linux
-
-package local
-
-import (
-	"io"
-	"os"
-)
-
-func newFadviseReadCloser(o *Object, f *os.File, offset, limit int64) io.ReadCloser {
-	return f
-}
diff --git a/backend/local/fadvise_unix.go b/backend/local/fadvise_unix.go
deleted file mode 100644
index f463e017c..000000000
--- a/backend/local/fadvise_unix.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,165 +0,0 @@
-//go:build linux
-
-package local
-
-import (
-	"io"
-	"os"
-
-	"github.com/rclone/rclone/fs"
-	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
-)
-
-// fadvise provides means to automate freeing pages in kernel page cache for
-// a given file descriptor as the file is sequentially processed (read or
-// written).
-//
-// When copying a file to a remote backend all the file content is read by
-// kernel and put to page cache to make future reads faster.
-// This causes memory pressure visible in both memory usage and CPU consumption
-// and can even cause OOM errors in applications consuming large amounts memory.
-//
-// In case of an upload to a remote backend, there is no benefits from caching.
-//
-// fadvise would orchestrate calling POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED
-//
-// POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED attempts to free cached pages associated
-// with the specified region.  This is useful, for example, while
-// streaming large files.  A program may periodically request the
-// kernel to free cached data that has already been used, so that
-// more useful cached pages are not discarded instead.
-//
-// Requests to discard partial pages are ignored.  It is
-// preferable to preserve needed data than discard unneeded data.
-// If the application requires that data be considered for
-// discarding, then offset and len must be page-aligned.
-//
-// The implementation may attempt to write back dirty pages in
-// the specified region, but this is not guaranteed.  Any
-// unwritten dirty pages will not be freed.  If the application
-// wishes to ensure that dirty pages will be released, it should
-// call fsync(2) or fdatasync(2) first.
-type fadvise struct {
-	o          *Object
-	fd         int
-	lastPos    int64
-	curPos     int64
-	windowSize int64
-
-	freePagesCh chan offsetLength
-	doneCh      chan struct{}
-}
-
-type offsetLength struct {
-	offset int64
-	length int64
-}
-
-const (
-	defaultAllowPages      = 32
-	defaultWorkerQueueSize = 64
-)
-
-func newFadvise(o *Object, fd int, offset int64) *fadvise {
-	f := &fadvise{
-		o:          o,
-		fd:         fd,
-		lastPos:    offset,
-		curPos:     offset,
-		windowSize: int64(os.Getpagesize()) * defaultAllowPages,
-
-		freePagesCh: make(chan offsetLength, defaultWorkerQueueSize),
-		doneCh:      make(chan struct{}),
-	}
-	go f.worker()
-
-	return f
-}
-
-// sequential configures readahead strategy in Linux kernel.
-//
-// Under Linux, POSIX_FADV_NORMAL sets the readahead window to the
-// default size for the backing device; POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL doubles
-// this size, and POSIX_FADV_RANDOM disables file readahead entirely.
-func (f *fadvise) sequential(limit int64) bool {
-	l := int64(0)
-	if limit > 0 {
-		l = limit
-	}
-	if err := unix.Fadvise(f.fd, f.curPos, l, unix.FADV_SEQUENTIAL); err != nil {
-		fs.Debugf(f.o, "fadvise sequential failed on file descriptor %d: %s", f.fd, err)
-		return false
-	}
-
-	return true
-}
-
-func (f *fadvise) next(n int) {
-	f.curPos += int64(n)
-	f.freePagesIfNeeded()
-}
-
-func (f *fadvise) freePagesIfNeeded() {
-	if f.curPos >= f.lastPos+f.windowSize {
-		f.freePages()
-	}
-}
-
-func (f *fadvise) freePages() {
-	f.freePagesCh <- offsetLength{f.lastPos, f.curPos - f.lastPos}
-	f.lastPos = f.curPos
-}
-
-func (f *fadvise) worker() {
-	for p := range f.freePagesCh {
-		if err := unix.Fadvise(f.fd, p.offset, p.length, unix.FADV_DONTNEED); err != nil {
-			fs.Debugf(f.o, "fadvise dontneed failed on file descriptor %d: %s", f.fd, err)
-		}
-	}
-
-	close(f.doneCh)
-}
-
-func (f *fadvise) wait() {
-	close(f.freePagesCh)
-	<-f.doneCh
-}
-
-type fadviseReadCloser struct {
-	*fadvise
-	inner io.ReadCloser
-}
-
-// newFadviseReadCloser wraps os.File so that reading from that file would
-// remove already consumed pages from kernel page cache.
-// In addition to that it instructs kernel to double the readahead window to
-// make sequential reads faster.
-// See also fadvise.
-func newFadviseReadCloser(o *Object, f *os.File, offset, limit int64) io.ReadCloser {
-	r := fadviseReadCloser{
-		fadvise: newFadvise(o, int(f.Fd()), offset),
-		inner:   f,
-	}
-
-	// If syscall failed it's likely that the subsequent syscalls to that
-	// file descriptor would also fail. In that case return the provided os.File
-	// pointer.
-	if !r.sequential(limit) {
-		r.wait()
-		return f
-	}
-
-	return r
-}
-
-func (f fadviseReadCloser) Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
-	n, err = f.inner.Read(p)
-	f.next(n)
-	return
-}
-
-func (f fadviseReadCloser) Close() error {
-	f.freePages()
-	f.wait()
-	return f.inner.Close()
-}
diff --git a/backend/local/local.go b/backend/local/local.go
index da21c483f..e5ad22ab9 100644
--- a/backend/local/local.go
+++ b/backend/local/local.go
@@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ func (o *Object) Hash(ctx context.Context, r hash.Type) (string, error) {
 			var fd *os.File
 			fd, err = file.Open(o.path)
 			if fd != nil {
-				in = newFadviseReadCloser(o, fd, 0, 0)
+				in = fd
 			}
 		} else {
 			in, err = o.openTranslatedLink(0, -1)
@@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@ func (o *Object) Open(ctx context.Context, options ...fs.OpenOption) (in io.Read
 	if err != nil {
 		return
 	}
-	wrappedFd := readers.NewLimitedReadCloser(newFadviseReadCloser(o, fd, offset, limit), limit)
+	wrappedFd := readers.NewLimitedReadCloser(fd, limit)
 	if offset != 0 {
 		// seek the object
 		_, err = fd.Seek(offset, io.SeekStart)