AprLifecycleListener + SSL painfully slow to startup

[sannegrinovero]

Hello all,
I am configuring the

<Listener lassName="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener" />

on JBoss 4.2.3 jdk6, RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.2

The native connector is working well, my problem is that I'm doing some experiments/development and need to restart the server often.
The first startup of the day is done in about 20 seconds, second 1 minute, third 4 minutes and then it goes up to 40minutes, 3hours...
When i disable SSL it is fast as usual.
My guess is that it has something to do with the random pool for SSL;
on the documentation for SSL at http://www.jboss.org/file-access/default/members/jbossweb/freezone/docs/2.1.0/ssl-howto.html
I've found additional options (not mentioned at the Apr configuration page http://www.jboss.org/file-access/default/members/jbossweb/freezone/docs/2.1.0/apr.html) but these don't appear to be supported (any more?) about using an option as

SSLRandomSeed="somedevice"

The howto mentions the possibility to set this option to "/dev/urandom" to help startup times during development, however during JBoss startup the option isn't regonized (I get a warning logged) and the startup is still very slow.
Has this setting being removed? The docs should be updated. is there a good alternative?

thanks in advance for helping,
Sanne

[sannegrinovero]

sorry, I forgot to paste the interesting part of my startup log:

[com.arjuna.ats.jbossatx.jta.TransactionManagerService] Binding TransactionManager JNDI Reference
[org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded] Catalina naming disabled
[org.apache.commons.digester.Digester] [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Listener} Setting property 'SSLRandomSeed' to '/dev/urandom' did not find a matching property.
[org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener] Loaded Apache Tomcat Native library 1.1.13.
[org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener] APR capabilities: IPv6 [true], sendfile [true], accept filters [false], random [true].