// Copyright (C) 2018 The Syncthing Authors. // // This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public // License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, // You can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. //go:build !android // +build !android package osutil import ( "fmt" "os" "syscall" ) // SetLowPriority lowers the process CPU scheduling priority, and possibly // I/O priority depending on the platform and OS. func SetLowPriority() error { // Process zero is "self", niceness value 9 is something between 0 // (default) and 19 (worst priority). But then, this is Linux, so of // course we get this to take care of as well: // // "C library/kernel differences // // Within the kernel, nice values are actually represented using the // range 40..1 (since negative numbers are error codes) and these are // the values employed by the setpriority() and getpriority() system // calls. The glibc wrapper functions for these system calls handle the // translations between the user-land and kernel representations of the // nice value according to the formula unice = 20 - knice. (Thus, the // kernel's 40..1 range corresponds to the range -20..19 as seen by user // space.)" const ( pidSelf = 0 wantNiceLevel = 20 - 9 ) // Remember Linux kernel nice levels are upside down. if cur, err := syscall.Getpriority(syscall.PRIO_PROCESS, 0); err == nil && cur <= wantNiceLevel { // We're done here. return nil } // Move ourselves to a new process group so that we can use the process // group variants of Setpriority etc to affect all of our threads in one // go. If this fails, bail, so that we don't affect things we shouldn't. // If we are already the leader of our own process group, do nothing. // // Oh and this is because Linux doesn't follow the POSIX threading model // where setting the niceness of the process would actually set the // niceness of the process, instead it just affects the current thread // so we need this workaround... if pgid, err := syscall.Getpgid(pidSelf); err != nil { // This error really shouldn't happen return fmt.Errorf("get process group: %w", err) } else if pgid != os.Getpid() { // We are not process group leader. Elevate! if err := syscall.Setpgid(pidSelf, 0); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("set process group: %w", err) } } // For any new process, the default is to be assigned the IOPRIO_CLASS_BE // scheduling class. This class directly maps the BE prio level to the // niceness of a process, determined as: io_nice = (cpu_nice + 20) / 5. // For example, a niceness of 11 results in an I/O priority of B6. // https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt if err := syscall.Setpriority(syscall.PRIO_PGRP, pidSelf, wantNiceLevel); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("set niceness: %w", err) } return nil }