I do have problem with boost
- Saving module page or trying to deactivate boost static page cache lead to the following error:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 2147483648 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 900 bytes) in /home/shareontheweb/public_html/sites/all/modules/boost/boost.module on line 5315

- I cannot deactivate boost static page cache
- I cannot clear boost's database and file cache - 100K recirs, 300K files

How can I solve this and clean a$up all that? Can I directly delete files and truncate database tables? Which folders/ tables?

Thanks

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jvieille’s picture

jvieille commented

Also impossible to disable the boost module...

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
  • The error is a php error normally experienced when something is stuck in a loop.
  • Boost can probably be removed but it will break the site a little, but that seems to be happening anyway.
  • Why do you wish to remove boost ?
  • What is your hosting ? shared or VPS, dedicated etc...
  • When you say you cannot clear the cache is that through the interface or manually?
  • What changed ? Something must have to trigger this.

Baby steps first. (while you provide the other information).

  1. edit your .htaccess file in the root folder and remove the section on boost, which will stop the cached files being sent out.
  2. if you cannot edit this page by ftp, then in your ftp program, right click it and change the permissions as it may have been written by the web server and be read only by the ftp server.
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jvieille commented

I don't wish to remove boost, but as it behave now, I cannot save my module page. Also I am experiencing some strange caching effect (pages not updated...)
I have a dedicated server, I can do what I want.
I cannot clear the cache through the interface. I don't know what to clear manually
Nothing changed specifically, but I have 400+ modules on this site, so something might have happened somewhere...

I removed the boost section in htaccess. This solved the caching issues but slowed down the site by 50%.
No way to disable Boost or clear the cache

Thanks very much for taking care.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

You can clear the cache manually by just deleting the cache/normal/www.example.com folder. 400+ modules is not good at all, it's not surprising that there is some kind of interaction going on, but i doubt it is boost exactly, I'd disable the boost crawler if it's online. Boost works by saving the output buffer to a file, with 400 modules that's a lot of modules to load into memory just to compile a page to produce nothing (which is what it would be doing on the module page, it will be looking at every one but then discarding output as you are not an anonymous user).

This is a catch 22, you can't disable the modules until the module page loads. What you could try is moving the boost module folder temporarily. Disabling some modules (when the page loads) until you get to a point when you could put the boost folder back then turn it off and re-install it from the latest version (probably the dev version would be better) then re-enable the modules. Note down everything you disable as you do it, lest you miss a module.

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jvieille commented

Thanks, I'll try to fix that.
Wouldn't be easier / riskier to set the module status to 0 in the database system table?