// 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/. package osutil import ( "github.com/pkg/errors" "golang.org/x/sys/windows" ) // SetLowPriority lowers the process CPU scheduling priority, and possibly // I/O priority depending on the platform and OS. func SetLowPriority() error { handle, err := windows.GetCurrentProcess() if err != nil { return errors.Wrap(err, "get process handle") } defer windows.CloseHandle(handle) err = windows.SetPriorityClass(handle, windows.BELOW_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS) return errors.Wrap(err, "set priority class") // wraps nil as nil }