> At any rate, I don't think the Debian cpulimit package can be "upgraded" to CPUlimit on GitHub.
Sorry I used the term "upgrade" because I didn't know about the two packages. > 4. The new CPULimit includes some nice features like tracking child processes. I do need this feature for cpulimit (I'm trying to stop sbt (SBT build tool) slowing down the rest of my machine) > Yes, it's a confusing mess. Not enough of a confusing mess for me: perhaps GitHub's cpulimit could be released as limitcpu?