Apache Error Message 70007

Being visited by www.80legs.com

[grandma genie]

Hello everyone,
I noticed my error logs were larger than usual so checked and found a whole series of this:

[Sat Nov 13 12:42:36 2010] [error] [client 24.44.143.nnn] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: ap_content_length_filter: apr_bucket_read() failed
[Sat Nov 13 12:42:38 2010] [error] [client 173.80.141.nnn] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: ap_content_length_filter: apr_bucket_read() failed
[Sat Nov 13 12:42:39 2010] [error] [client 24.44.143.nnn] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: ap_content_length_filter: apr_bucket_read() failed
[Sat Nov 13 12:42:41 2010] [error] [client 173.80.141.nnn] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: ap_content_length_filter: apr_bucket_read() failed
[Sat Nov 13 12:42:41 2010] [error] [client 24.44.143.nnn] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: ap_content_length_filter: apr_bucket_read() failed
[Sat Nov 13 12:42:42 2010] [error] [client 24.44.143.nnn] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: ap_content_length_filter: apr_bucket_read() failed

In the access logs the user agent was usually www.80legs.com:

24.44.143.nnn - - [13/Nov/2010:12:40:24 -0500] "GET /dogs/dogs_index.html HTTP/1.1" 200 16880 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; 008/0.83; [80legs.com...] Gecko/2008032620"

But I also found some IPs that were regular visitors, one was a customer. But the same Apache error was in the error log. Then it stopped and all seems OK now. What does that error message mean? I blocked 80legs in htaccess.

Grandma_genie

[sublime1]

I did a quick google of the exact error message (starting from (70007)...) and got tons of responses -- maybe this is the first place to look:

[google.com...]

[grandma genie]

Hi sublime1,
Yes, I did that first. But could not find a situation like mine. I'm on a hosted Apache server and it's hard to get a hold of them on a weekend. I thought it might be a server error, but thought it was odd since most of the errors were related to the user agent 80legs, so I thought perhaps someone here might have some experience with this. I also have e-mailed the host. Those error messages stopped when 80legs left. I was just wondering why Apache was having problems. I know my host mentioned the server had been attacked last week, which slowed the server way down. Didn't know if the same thing was happening. It seems that the server is being slowed down, causing the error messages. Do you think that might be the problem? I notice the osc portion of my website has been a bit slow today.
Grandma_genie