Just curios, Why didn't the kernel just kill gpilotd and not reboot?

On your other note, By the time it was brought to my attention, it was
already killed. I had no time to run top, let  alone gkrellm. 
> > 
> Should qualify my own statement :-) 2.4 kernels will kill runaway
> processes _if_ they run away slowly enough for the kernel to catch it
> and figure out what's going on... I've had gpilotd beta releases eat
> 768M of RAM and 1G of swap in about twenty seconds, and when that
> happens the machine just reboots. No ifs ands or buts, no stop and think
> about this, it's just a goner :-)
> -- 
> Jack Coates
> Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
> 
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