J2EE Apps use only two cores of the quad-core CPU of Xeon?

[rajendrapote]

We need to install our J2EE application on a Xeon server machines, built by IBM, but need to install it only for two cores due
to licensing issues. Any idea on how to make a JVM use only two cores of the quad-core CPU of Xeon?

[Dmitry_Vyukov]

Quoting - rajendrapote

We need to install our J2EE application on a Xeon server machines, built by IBM, but need to install it only for two cores due
to licensing issues. Any idea on how to make a JVM use only two cores of the quad-core CPU of Xeon?

On linux you can use numactl(8):

http://linux.die.net/man/8/numactl

(see --physcpubind parameter)

[Dmitry_Vyukov · Accepted solution]

Quoting - rajendrapote

We need to install our J2EE application on a Xeon server machines, built by IBM, but need to install it only for two cores due
to licensing issues. Any idea on how to make a JVM use only two cores of the quad-core CPU of Xeon?

On Windows you can create script which will execute SetProcessAffinityMask() call for JVM process.

This is general method, although maybe JVM executable has corresponding command line parameters.