Every Laravel deployment I have seen has a line like this somewhere: [program:queue-worker] numprocs = 10 Why 10? Nobody knows. Someone picked it years ago and it stayed. Too low and jobs wait minutes during a campaign blast. Too high and you burn RAM all night for workers doing nothing. The number is wrong in both directions because load changes and the config does not. I spent this week testing an alternative on a demo app: cboxdk/laravel-queue-autoscale with ...