From f2db4ac2778145f76c6c5233966c82d692d22724 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@tailscale.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 11:40:34 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] cmd/tailscaled: SetGCPercent() if GOGC is not set.

This cuts RSS from ~30MB to ~20MB on my machine, after the previous fix
to get rid of unnecessary zstd buffers.

Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@tailscale.com>
---
 cmd/tailscaled/tailscaled.go | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cmd/tailscaled/tailscaled.go b/cmd/tailscaled/tailscaled.go
index 6682c2831..17d17bef5 100644
--- a/cmd/tailscaled/tailscaled.go
+++ b/cmd/tailscaled/tailscaled.go
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ import (
 	"log"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/pprof"
+	"os"
 	"runtime"
+	"runtime/debug"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/apenwarr/fixconsole"
@@ -37,6 +39,14 @@ import (
 const globalStateKey = "_daemon"
 
 func main() {
+	// We aren't very performance sensitive, and the parts that are
+	// performance sensitive (wireguard) try hard not to do any memory
+	// allocations. So let's be aggressive about garbage collection,
+	// unless the user specifically overrides it in the usual way.
+	if _, ok := os.LookupEnv("GOGC"); !ok {
+		debug.SetGCPercent(10)
+	}
+
 	defaultTunName := "tailscale0"
 	if runtime.GOOS == "openbsd" {
 		defaultTunName = "tun"