参考： http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1202184/throttling-cpu-memory-usage-of-a-thread-in-java
one way would be to adaptively sleep the threads, similarly as video playback is done in Java. If you know you want 50% core utilization, the your algorithm should sleep approximately 0.5 seconds - potentially distributed within a second (e.g. 0.25 sec computation, 0.25 sec sleep, e.t.c.).
另外，从jvisualvm里面看到的cpu使用率，是机器上面的总的cpu使用率，如果pc机是4核的话，50%的CPU，显示的是12.5%， 100%的CPU，显示的是25%。
原文：http://blog.csdn.net/nomad2/article/details/41483403