starovich

I have activated the Cache module and then configured the cache in Setup -> Templates -> Cache, where I have set the expiration to 3600 seconds for all my templates. When I run ApacheBench to stress the server, I am seeing exceptionally high load. My throughput is only ~10 requests/s despite the page being cached, and I can see high MySQL traffic, even though cache is supposedly activated. Is this expected behaviour? Are there any high-performance cache options available? (That preferrably don't query the DB at all when a cached page is requested.)