/* Declares what makes the nix-daemon work on systemd. See also - nixos/modules/config/nix.nix: the nix.conf - nixos/modules/config/nix-remote-build.nix: the nix.conf */ { config, lib, pkgs, ... }: with lib; let cfg = config.nix; nixPackage = cfg.package.out; isNixAtLeast = versionAtLeast (getVersion nixPackage); makeNixBuildUser = nr: { name = "nixbld${toString nr}"; value = { description = "Nix build user ${toString nr}"; /* For consistency with the setgid(2), setuid(2), and setgroups(2) calls in `libstore/build.cc', don't add any supplementary group here except "nixbld". */ uid = builtins.add config.ids.uids.nixbld nr; isSystemUser = true; group = "nixbld"; extraGroups = [ "nixbld" ]; }; }; nixbldUsers = listToAttrs (map makeNixBuildUser (range 1 cfg.nrBuildUsers)); in { imports = [ ../../config/nix.nix (mkRenamedOptionModuleWith { sinceRelease = 2205; from = [ "nix" "daemonIONiceLevel" ]; to = [ "nix" "daemonIOSchedPriority" ]; }) (mkRenamedOptionModuleWith { sinceRelease = 2211; from = [ "nix" "readOnlyStore" ]; to = [ "boot" "readOnlyNixStore" ]; }) (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "nix" "daemonNiceLevel" ] "Consider nix.daemonCPUSchedPolicy instead.") ]; ###### interface options = { nix = { enable = mkOption { type = types.bool; default = true; description = lib.mdDoc '' Whether to enable Nix. Disabling Nix makes the system hard to modify and the Nix programs and configuration will not be made available by NixOS itself. ''; }; package = mkOption { type = types.package; default = pkgs.nix; defaultText = literalExpression "pkgs.nix"; description = lib.mdDoc '' This option specifies the Nix package instance to use throughout the system. ''; }; daemonCPUSchedPolicy = mkOption { type = types.enum [ "other" "batch" "idle" ]; default = "other"; example = "batch"; description = lib.mdDoc '' Nix daemon process CPU scheduling policy. This policy propagates to build processes. `other` is the default scheduling policy for regular tasks. The `batch` policy is similar to `other`, but optimised for non-interactive tasks. `idle` is for extremely low-priority tasks that should only be run when no other task requires CPU time. Please note that while using the `idle` policy may greatly improve responsiveness of a system performing expensive builds, it may also slow down and potentially starve crucial configuration updates during load. `idle` may therefore be a sensible policy for systems that experience only intermittent phases of high CPU load, such as desktop or portable computers used interactively. Other systems should use the `other` or `batch` policy instead. For more fine-grained resource control, please refer to {manpage}`systemd.resource-control(5)` and adjust {option}`systemd.services.nix-daemon` directly. ''; }; daemonIOSchedClass = mkOption { type = types.enum [ "best-effort" "idle" ]; default = "best-effort"; example = "idle"; description = lib.mdDoc '' Nix daemon process I/O scheduling class. This class propagates to build processes. `best-effort` is the default class for regular tasks. The `idle` class is for extremely low-priority tasks that should only perform I/O when no other task does. Please note that while using the `idle` scheduling class can improve responsiveness of a system performing expensive builds, it might also slow down or starve crucial configuration updates during load. `idle` may therefore be a sensible class for systems that experience only intermittent phases of high I/O load, such as desktop or portable computers used interactively. Other systems should use the `best-effort` class. ''; }; daemonIOSchedPriority = mkOption { type = types.int; default = 4; example = 1; description = lib.mdDoc '' Nix daemon process I/O scheduling priority. This priority propagates to build processes. The supported priorities depend on the scheduling policy: With idle, priorities are not used in scheduling decisions. best-effort supports values in the range 0 (high) to 7 (low). ''; }; # Environment variables for running Nix. envVars = mkOption { type = types.attrs; internal = true; default = { }; description = lib.mdDoc "Environment variables used by Nix."; }; nrBuildUsers = mkOption { type = types.int; description = lib.mdDoc '' Number of `nixbld` user accounts created to perform secure concurrent builds. If you receive an error message saying that “all build users are currently in use”, you should increase this value. ''; }; }; }; ###### implementation config = mkIf cfg.enable { environment.systemPackages = [ nixPackage pkgs.nix-info ] ++ optional (config.programs.bash.enableCompletion) pkgs.nix-bash-completions; systemd.packages = [ nixPackage ]; # Will only work once https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6285 is merged # systemd.tmpfiles.packages = [ nixPackage ]; # Can be dropped for Nix > https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6285 systemd.tmpfiles.rules = [ "d /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket 0755 root root - -" ]; systemd.sockets.nix-daemon.wantedBy = [ "sockets.target" ]; systemd.services.nix-daemon = { path = [ nixPackage pkgs.util-linux config.programs.ssh.package ] ++ optionals cfg.distributedBuilds [ pkgs.gzip ]; environment = cfg.envVars // { CURL_CA_BUNDLE = "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"; } // config.networking.proxy.envVars; unitConfig.RequiresMountsFor = "/nix/store"; serviceConfig = { CPUSchedulingPolicy = cfg.daemonCPUSchedPolicy; IOSchedulingClass = cfg.daemonIOSchedClass; IOSchedulingPriority = cfg.daemonIOSchedPriority; LimitNOFILE = 1048576; }; restartTriggers = [ config.environment.etc."nix/nix.conf".source ]; # `stopIfChanged = false` changes to switch behavior # from stop -> update units -> start # to update units -> restart # # The `stopIfChanged` setting therefore controls a trade-off between a # more predictable lifecycle, which runs the correct "version" of # the `ExecStop` line, and on the other hand the availability of # sockets during the switch, as the effectiveness of the stop operation # depends on the socket being stopped as well. # # As `nix-daemon.service` does not make use of `ExecStop`, we prefer # to keep the socket up and available. This is important for machines # that run Nix-based services, such as automated build, test, and deploy # services, that expect the daemon socket to be available at all times. # # Notably, the Nix client does not retry on failure to connect to the # daemon socket, and the in-process RemoteStore instance will disable # itself. This makes retries infeasible even for services that are # aware of the issue. Failure to connect can affect not only new client # processes, but also new RemoteStore instances in existing processes, # as well as existing RemoteStore instances that have not saturated # their connection pool. # # Also note that `stopIfChanged = true` does not kill existing # connection handling daemons, as one might wish to happen before a # breaking Nix upgrade (which is rare). The daemon forks that handle # the individual connections split off into their own sessions, causing # them not to be stopped by systemd. # If a Nix upgrade does require all existing daemon processes to stop, # nix-daemon must do so on its own accord, and only when the new version # starts and detects that Nix's persistent state needs an upgrade. stopIfChanged = false; }; # Set up the environment variables for running Nix. environment.sessionVariables = cfg.envVars; nix.nrBuildUsers = mkDefault ( if cfg.settings.auto-allocate-uids or false then 0 else max 32 (if cfg.settings.max-jobs == "auto" then 0 else cfg.settings.max-jobs) ); users.users = nixbldUsers; services.xserver.displayManager.hiddenUsers = attrNames nixbldUsers; system.activationScripts.nix = stringAfter [ "etc" "users" ] '' install -m 0755 -d /nix/var/nix/{gcroots,profiles}/per-user ''; # Legacy configuration conversion. nix.settings = mkMerge [ (mkIf (isNixAtLeast "2.3pre") { sandbox-fallback = false; }) ]; }; }