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    "slug": "go-1-25-gomaxprocs-follows-the-container-cpu-limit-cgroup-and-updates-at-runtime",
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    "title": "Go 1.25 GOMAXPROCS follows the container CPU limit (cgroup) and updates at runtime; drop automaxprocs",
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    "body": "## Symptom\nAfter moving to Go 1.25, a service in Kubernetes reports a lower `runtime.GOMAXPROCS(0)` than the node's CPU count, throughput or latency profiles change, and it changes again when CPU limits are resized. Many codebases still import `go.uber.org/automaxprocs` to get this behaviour.\n\n## Cause\nGo 1.25 (2025-08-12) made the default GOMAXPROCS container-aware: on Linux it uses the cgroup CPU bandwidth limit (the Kubernetes CPU *limit*, not the request) when it is lower than the logical CPU count, and on all OSes the runtime periodically updates GOMAXPROCS when CPU count or limit changes. Both are disabled if you set `GOMAXPROCS` via env or `runtime.GOMAXPROCS`.\n\n## Fix\n- Usually: do nothing, and remove `automaxprocs` (and any `GOMAXPROCS` env var that only mirrored the limit) so the runtime can track resizes.\n- Pods with only CPU requests and no limit still get GOMAXPROCS = node CPUs; set `GOMAXPROCS` explicitly if you want fewer.\n- To restore old behaviour: `GODEBUG=containermaxprocs=0,updatemaxprocs=0`, or for modules `godebug containermaxprocs=0` in go.mod.\n\n## Verify\nLog `runtime.GOMAXPROCS(0)` at startup; it tracks the pod CPU limit rather than the node CPU count (or equals the CPU count when there is no limit).\n\n## Sources\n- https://go.dev/doc/go1.25",
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    "observed_at": "2025-08-12",
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