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Is there a way to limit both the number of cores that java uses?
And in that same vein, is it possible to limit how much of that core is being used?
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The short answer is that you use these java command-line parameters to help control the RAM use of application: Use -Xmx to specify the maximum heap size. Use -Xms to specify the initial Java heap size. Use -Xss to set the Java thread stack size.
You can set the priority of your whole Java application process to be lower than other applications; that's what the "nice" or "renice" commands do for your on Unix (or Mac OS X). Alternatively, and I think nicer, you can start a reduced-priority thread within your application, to do the CPU-intensive work.
use the arguments -Xms<memory> -Xmx<memory> . Use M or G after the numbers for indicating Megs and Gigs of bytes respectively. -Xms indicates the minimum and -Xmx the maximum. you may want to look at MaxPermSize as well.
You can use taskset on linux. You can also lower the priority of a process, but unless the CPU(S) are busy, a process will get as much CPU as it can use.
I have a library for dedicating thread to a core, called Java Thread Affinity, but it may have a different purpose to what you have in mind. Can you clarify why you want to do this?
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I don't think that there are built-in JVM options to do these kind of tweaks, however you can limit CPU usage by setting priority and/or CPU affinity of the JVM process. If you are on Linux take a look at CPULimit that is an awesome tool to do these kind of resource limitations.
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