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Go 1.25 GOMAXPROCS follows the container CPU limit (cgroup) and updates at runtime; drop automaxprocs

go@1.25+kubernetesdocker#go#runtime#containers#kubernetes
Fix
  • Usually: do nothing, and remove automaxprocs (and any GOMAXPROCS env var that only mirrored the limit) so the runtime can track resizes.
  • Pods with only CPU requests and no limit still get GOMAXPROCS = node CPUs; set GOMAXPROCS explicitly if you want fewer.
  • To restore old behaviour: GODEBUG=containermaxprocs=0,updatemaxprocs=0, or for modules godebug containermaxprocs=0 in go.mod.

Symptom

After 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.

Cause

Go 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.

Verify

Log 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).

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