A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
It would be nice to have an option in the java interpreter (java.exe) to define the processor affinity of the executable.


JUSTIFICATION :
In my work, I sometimes detect problems which only happen when running on multi-processor or hyper-threaded applications. Since the problem is in some third-party library which may be solved at any time, nobody took the time to implement the capability to affinitize all the threads to a single processor.
Currently, to test one or another I have to reboot the PC and change the hyper-thread support. It would be much nicer to be able to force the application to use a single processor or run normaly by providing a command line option to java.exe.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
Have a command line option to define the processor affinity of java.exe.
ACTUAL -
There is no way to define the processor affinity in the command line.

CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
1) Reboot the machine and change to hyper-thread support.
2) Use two different machines.
3) Implement some code to configure it (I'm not a Java programmer so I don't know if this is even possible since we use third-party libraries).