locate.updatedb freezes system

[James Dennis <james_(_at_)_firstaidmusic_(_dot_)_com>]

Hello,

I'm not sure how these two are related, but since installing patch 006 
I've noticed that when cron runs the daily stuff and locate.updatedb 
starts, the processor seems to go crazy and the system becomes so slow 
that it takes about 5 minutes to get a command entered and to receive 
output. It's happened the last two days and I've had to reboot each 
time. The reason I'm assuming it's locate.updatedb is because I was up 
at 4am when suddenly the system stopped routing packets. I logged in, 
though it took a while, then I managed to get a ps output to see what 
was up and locate.updatedb was all that was running. Perhaps something 
else caused it and I couldn't get any info until it was too late.

Anything else I can send or do to help? I'm not sure what else to say 
as the system seems to slow down so badly that it's difficult for me to 
enter commands, let alone debug.

-James