I saw this in an older post and am not sure if I still need to do this?

http://drupal.org/node/245166#comment-930883

$conf['page_cache_fastpath'] = 1;

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grendzy commented

I noticed this too, the fastpath doesn't kick in unless that's added to settings.php. (Tested by shutting down MySQL; in theory if fastpath is working cached pages should continue to load). I can't tell if this is a bug or or just missing documentation.