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 ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]