Wierd timeout with apache mod_proxy

Hi

I may have posted this in the wrong place: apologies if I have. I
currently have a setup with Apache proxying requests to mongrels.
Occassionally, in the apache logs I get an error that looks like

[Tue Oct 30 12:00:28 2007] [error] (70007)The timeout specified has
expired: proxy: pass request body failed to 127.0.0.1:8013 (127.0.0.1)
from 213.205.247.171 ()
[Tue Oct 30 12:00:28 2007] [error] [client 213.205.247.171] Handler
for proxy-server returned invalid result code 70007

Does anyone know if this is an Apache/Mongrel issue, and why the
timeout could be occurring?

Thanks in advance for anyone’s help