Contrary to the logic, when I disable Anonymous caching by the core (Performance Settings) and thus resorting to Boost for caching, my server load becomes huge. It shoots up to 20 and have crashed the server a couple of times as well.

What could I be doing wrong or server load is an expected outcome with enabling boost?

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bgm commented

Can you look at your web server logs and see what pages are being accessed, and if they are correctly cached / served by Boost? (they should include the "cached by boost" comment in the footer of the HTML page)

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

I was going to ask how big is the site and how many hits ? as a file seek is CPU load intensive but not compared to processing PHP and DB connections so this does rather defy logic.

The other thing I thought about was a rewrite loop which should stop at 100 cycles or less with the browser giving an incorrect configuration error.

What is the server ? Apache and what kind of php, if it's suExec of FastCgi, then a PHP configuration problem would be indicated by php processes taking up the CPU, a rewrite problem would be an apache process at the top of the list.

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standingtall
Location Sydney
commented

Thanks.

This is more information.

Site has 30,000 nodes, traffic is around 20k pageviews a day, mostly anonymous traffic. On busy days, server has withstood up to 100K page views a day.

Server is Apache, 24ghz RAM, Quad core with CDN and database is innodb.

Php 5 handler is suphp with Apache suEXEC turned on.

Biggest process is MySql - by far.

Thanks for your help.

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standingtall
Location Sydney
commented
Status: Active » Fixed

#1 did the trick.

Boost cache was only being generated for home page. Fixing .htaccess did the trick.

This thread below was very helpful.

http://drupal.org/node/659042

Thanks everyone

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.