Software caused connection abort

Any idea what this means. I am getting this when the https connection to rt
3.8.2 is super slow

[Sun May 3 14:05:13 2009] [crit]: Apache2::RequestIO::rflush: (130)
Software caused connection abort at
/opt/csw/share/perl/site_perl/HTML/Mason/ApacheHandler.pm line 1020
(/opt/rt3/bin/webmux.pl:151)

Asif Iqbal
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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