// 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/. // +build !windows,!linux package osutil import ( "syscall" "github.com/pkg/errors" ) // 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). const ( pidSelf = 0 wantNiceLevel = 9 ) if cur, err := syscall.Getpriority(syscall.PRIO_PROCESS, pidSelf); err == nil && cur >= wantNiceLevel { // We're done here. return nil } err := syscall.Setpriority(syscall.PRIO_PROCESS, pidSelf, wantNiceLevel) return errors.Wrap(err, "set niceness") // wraps nil as nil }