Laravel Artisan Queues - high cpu usage

Question

I have set up queues in Laravel for my processing scripts. I am using beanstalkd and supervisord. There are 6 different tubes for different types of processing.

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Answer 1

The problem of high CPU is caused because the worker loads the complete framework everytime it checks for a job in the queue. In laravel 4.2, you can use php artisan queue:work --daemon. This will load the framework once and the checking/processing of jobs happen inside a while loop, which lets CPU breathe easy. You can find more about daemon worker in the official documentation: http://laravel.com/docs/queues#daemon-queue-worker.

However, this benefit comes with a drawback - you need special care when deploying the code and you have to take care of the database connections. Usually, long running database connections are disconnected.