There was a post in usenet about this issue.  I'll forward one of the 
last messages with some of the history.  It should help.

Loren K. Louthan wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Hopefully, this will ring a bell for someone:
>
> My secure server starts up with no problem. It serves pages for 5 mins.,
> 10 mins, sometimes even a half-hour. Eventually, however, it stops
> serving pages. The clients will see "opening page *server-address* ", or
> "Requesting page from *server-address*". But the page never shows up, it
> is blank.And we don't get any "Time-out" error messages, either.
>
> At about the time this happens, I get the following in my ssl_engine_log
> file:
>
> [05/Jun/2002 11:22:35 09388] [info]  Connection to child 10 established
> (server www.MYDOMAINNAME.com:443, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
> [05/Jun/2002 11:22:35 09388] [info]  Seeding PRNG with 136 bytes of 
> entropy
> [05/Jun/2002 11:22:36 09388] [warn]  Failed to acquire global mutex lock
> [05/Jun/2002 11:22:36 09388] [warn]  Failed to release global mutex lock
>
> Now, in %server-root%/logs (the path specified in httpd.conf) there is a
> ssl_mutex file, but it is empty.
>
> There is no relevant error in the either server's or system error logs.
>
> Server config is:
> Apache Version:        2.0.36
> mod_ssl version:    2.8.7-4
> openssl version        0.9.6b-18
>
> System is RedHat 7.3, Apache was built from source tarball, openssl is
> from the RPM that installs w/RH 7.3
>
> I can send httpd.conf settings, if necesarry.
>
> Thanks in advance,


-- 
.tom

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