[expert] Slocate out of control

[Brian Hartman]

Hi, all.

I'm having a problem, and I think it's with slocate.  Every so often, my hard 
drive will go nuts and just start grinding uncontrollably, taking up all my 
system resources and forcing a hard shutdown (with the attendant problem of 
fsck having to fix everything on boot-up).  Is there some way to get slocate 
to behave itself so it doesn't lock up my system?  TIA.