Many Oops initiated by slocate

Hi.

I am using kernel 2.4.19 untainted, Pentium PC, RedHat 7.3, etc. I have repeatedly seen this pattern of oops, even under 2.4.18:

updatedb (used by slocate and run by crond daily at 4am) causes a kernel oops after which many other applications cause oops and core dump.

I have enclosed the ksymoops output from updatedb and also by kswapd 6 hours later. Mozilla repeatedly caused oops after that and I needed to reboot to send this email.

I would really like to see this fixed: I hate rebooting every few days and disabling
the slocate cron job is not really desirable either.

-- tony
"Surrender to the Void." -- John Lennon