diff --git a/src/xz/file_io.c b/src/xz/file_io.c
index 0e2bd680c6f752bff509f3f6782500f4cec3e86b_c3JjL3h6L2ZpbGVfaW8uYw==..cf0cae1b8b9f25b192ee153af21d40dec11fc090_c3JjL3h6L2ZpbGVfaW8uYw== 100644
--- a/src/xz/file_io.c
+++ b/src/xz/file_io.c
@@ -525,7 +525,10 @@
 #endif
 #ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE
 		// It will fail if stdin is a pipe and that's fine.
-		(void)posix_fadvise(STDIN_FILENO, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL);
+		(void)posix_fadvise(STDIN_FILENO, 0, 0,
+				opt_mode == MODE_LIST
+					? POSIX_FADV_RANDOM
+					: POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL);
 #endif
 		return false;
 	}
@@ -716,7 +719,10 @@
 
 #ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE
 	// It will fail with some special files like FIFOs but that is fine.
-	(void)posix_fadvise(pair->src_fd, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL);
+	(void)posix_fadvise(pair->src_fd, 0, 0,
+			opt_mode == MODE_LIST
+				? POSIX_FADV_RANDOM
+				: POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL);
 #endif
 
 	return false;