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I'd consider running it as a VMWare image, but if it's going to consume that much CPU regardless, I can't even do that. Maybe VMWare has a CPU throttle?


As I read your post I was formulating basically those exact thoughts in my head. AFAIK, VMWare does have a CPU throttle, it costs about 2k per physical machine you want to run ESX on. Using VMWare Server, you can limit limit the machine to a single processor core, which would at least leave any remaining cores free. However, the app probably isn't multithreaded in the first place.

Matthew