diff --git a/test/hotspot/jtreg/containers/systemd/SystemdMemoryAwarenessTest.java b/test/hotspot/jtreg/containers/systemd/SystemdMemoryAwarenessTest.java
index 92cc6c7ff6d83..2c06d48bb1c0a 100644
--- a/test/hotspot/jtreg/containers/systemd/SystemdMemoryAwarenessTest.java
+++ b/test/hotspot/jtreg/containers/systemd/SystemdMemoryAwarenessTest.java
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@
  * questions.
  */
 
+import jdk.test.lib.containers.systemd.SystemdRunOptions;
+import jdk.test.lib.containers.systemd.SystemdTestUtils;
+import jdk.test.lib.process.OutputAnalyzer;
+import jdk.test.whitebox.WhiteBox;
+import jtreg.SkippedException;
 
 /*
  * @test
@@ -33,11 +38,6 @@
  * @run driver jdk.test.lib.helpers.ClassFileInstaller -jar whitebox.jar jdk.test.whitebox.WhiteBox
  * @run main/othervm -Xbootclasspath/a:whitebox.jar -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+WhiteBoxAPI SystemdMemoryAwarenessTest
  */
-import jdk.test.lib.containers.systemd.SystemdRunOptions;
-import jdk.test.lib.containers.systemd.SystemdTestUtils;
-import jdk.test.whitebox.WhiteBox;
-
-
 public class SystemdMemoryAwarenessTest {
 
     private static final int MB = 1024 * 1024;
@@ -56,20 +56,30 @@ private static void testHelloSystemd() throws Exception {
         // expected detected limit we test for, 512MB
         opts.sliceDMemoryLimit(String.format("%dM", expectedMemLimit));
         int physicalCpus = wb.hostCPUs();
-        if (physicalCpus < 3) {
-           System.err.println("WARNING: host system only has " + physicalCpus + " expected >= 3");
+        if (physicalCpus < 2) {
+           System.err.println("WARNING: host system only has " + physicalCpus + " cpus. Expected >= 2");
+           System.err.println("The active_processor_count assertion will trivially pass.");
         }
-        // 1 or 2 cores limit depending on physical CPUs
-        int coreLimit = Math.min(physicalCpus, 2);
+        // Use a CPU core limit of 1 for best coverage
+        int coreLimit = 1;
         System.out.println("DEBUG: Running test with a CPU limit of " + coreLimit);
         opts.cpuLimit(String.format("%d%%", coreLimit * 100));
         opts.sliceName(TEST_SLICE_NAME);
 
-        SystemdTestUtils.buildAndRunSystemdJava(opts)
-            .shouldHaveExitValue(0)
-            .shouldContain("Hello Systemd")
-            .shouldContain("OSContainer::active_processor_count: " + coreLimit)
-            .shouldContain(String.format("Memory Limit is: %d", (expectedMemLimit * MB)));
+        OutputAnalyzer out = SystemdTestUtils.buildAndRunSystemdJava(opts);
+        out.shouldHaveExitValue(0)
+           .shouldContain("Hello Systemd")
+           .shouldContain(String.format("Memory Limit is: %d", (expectedMemLimit * MB)));
+        try {
+            out.shouldContain("OSContainer::active_processor_count: " + coreLimit);
+        } catch (RuntimeException e) {
+            // CPU delegation needs to be enabled when run as user on cg v2
+            if (SystemdTestUtils.RUN_AS_USER) {
+                String hint = "When run as user on cg v2 cpu delegation needs to be configured!";
+                throw new SkippedException(hint);
+            }
+            throw e;
+        }
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/test/lib/jdk/test/lib/containers/systemd/SystemdTestUtils.java b/test/lib/jdk/test/lib/containers/systemd/SystemdTestUtils.java
index 09f8dd79b73f7..341b24c3e051a 100644
--- a/test/lib/jdk/test/lib/containers/systemd/SystemdTestUtils.java
+++ b/test/lib/jdk/test/lib/containers/systemd/SystemdTestUtils.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public class SystemdTestUtils {
 
     private static final String CGROUPS_PROVIDER = Metrics.systemMetrics().getProvider();
     private static boolean CGROUPS_V2 = "cgroupv2".equals(CGROUPS_PROVIDER);
-    private static boolean RUN_AS_USER = !Platform.isRoot() && CGROUPS_V2;
+    public static boolean RUN_AS_USER = !Platform.isRoot() && CGROUPS_V2;
     private static final String SLICE_NAMESPACE_PREFIX = "jdk_internal";
     private static final String SLICE_D_MEM_CONFIG_FILE = "memory-limit.conf";
     private static final String SLICE_D_CPU_CONFIG_FILE = "cpu-limit.conf";