diff --git a/pageserver/src/metrics.rs b/pageserver/src/metrics.rs
index 3c4f7ca2fd..c412311afc 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/metrics.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/metrics.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::num::NonZeroUsize;
-use std::os::fd::RawFd;
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
 use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
 
@@ -1354,95 +1353,9 @@ impl SmgrOpTimer {
     pub(crate) fn observe_execution_start(&mut self, _at: Instant) {
     }
 
-    /// For all but the first caller, this is a no-op.
-    /// The first callers receives Some, subsequent ones None.
-    ///
-    /// See [`SmgrOpTimerState`] for more context.
-    pub(crate) fn observe_execution_end(&mut self, _at: Instant) -> Option<SmgrOpFlushInProgress> {
-        None
-    }
 }
 
-/// The last stage of request processing is serializing and flushing the request
-/// into the TCP connection. We want to make slow flushes observable
-/// _while they are occuring_, so this struct provides a wrapper method [`Self::measure`]
-/// to periodically bump the metric.
-///
-/// If in the future we decide that we're not interested in live updates, we can
-/// add another `observe_*` method to [`SmgrOpTimer`], follow the existing pattern there,
-/// and remove this struct from the code base.
-pub(crate) struct SmgrOpFlushInProgress {
-}
 
-impl SmgrOpFlushInProgress {
-    /// The caller must guarantee that `socket_fd`` outlives this function.
-    pub(crate) async fn measure<Fut, O>(
-        self,
-        started_at: Instant,
-        mut fut: Fut,
-        socket_fd: RawFd,
-    ) -> O
-    where
-        Fut: std::future::Future<Output = O>,
-    {
-        let mut fut = std::pin::pin!(fut);
-
-        let mut logged = false;
-        let mut last_counter_increment_at = started_at;
-        let mut observe_guard = scopeguard::guard(
-            |is_timeout| {
-                let now = Instant::now();
-
-                // Increment counter
-                {
-                    last_counter_increment_at = now;
-                }
-
-                // Log something on every timeout, and on completion but only if we hit a timeout.
-                if is_timeout || logged {
-                    logged = true;
-                    let elapsed_total = now - started_at;
-                    let msg = if is_timeout {
-                        "slow flush ongoing"
-                    } else {
-                        "slow flush completed or cancelled"
-                    };
-
-                    let (inq, outq) = {
-                        // SAFETY: caller guarantees that `socket_fd` outlives this function.
-                        #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
-                        unsafe {
-                            (
-                                utils::linux_socket_ioctl::inq(socket_fd).unwrap_or(-2),
-                                utils::linux_socket_ioctl::outq(socket_fd).unwrap_or(-2),
-                            )
-                        }
-                        #[cfg(not(target_os = "linux"))]
-                        {
-                            _ = socket_fd; // appease unused lint on macOS
-                            (-1, -1)
-                        }
-                    };
-
-                    let elapsed_total_secs = format!("{:.6}", elapsed_total.as_secs_f64());
-                    tracing::info!(elapsed_total_secs, inq, outq, msg);
-                }
-            },
-            |mut observe| {
-                observe(false);
-            },
-        );
-
-        loop {
-            match tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(10), &mut fut).await {
-                Ok(v) => return v,
-                Err(_timeout) => {
-                    (*observe_guard)(true);
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
 
 #[derive(
     Debug,
diff --git a/pageserver/src/page_service.rs b/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
index bbef0df35c..2d2ac137b0 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
@@ -1281,7 +1281,7 @@ impl PageServerHandler {
 
         // Dispatch the batch to the appropriate request handler.
         let log_slow_name = batch.as_static_str();
-        let (mut handler_results, span) = {
+        let (handler_results, span) = {
             // TODO: we unfortunately have to pin the future on the heap, since GetPage futures are huge and
             // won't fit on the stack.
             let mut boxpinned =
@@ -1381,7 +1381,7 @@ impl PageServerHandler {
             failpoint_support::sleep_millis_async!("before-pagestream-msg-flush", cancel);
 
             // what we want to do
-            let socket_fd = pgb_writer.socket_fd;
+           
             let flush_fut = pgb_writer.flush();
             // metric for how long flushing takes
             // let flush_fut = match flushing_timer {