By Jan Misker
We have a Laravel queue worker that is running fine most of the time, however sometimes it hangs. It doesn’t pick up new jobs, and it’s not responsive at all also not possible to login via Console to have a look at what’s happening. The CPU and Memory insights are low, on usual levels. Also it can’t really be something in the queue jobs, it always seems to finish the queue job at hand but simply doesn’t pick up a new one.
We might have to rework our application architecture to accommodate this, but first this question:
In the crash logs (via doctl apps logs <ID> --type=run-restarted) we sometimes do see container exited with exit code 12. I searched but can’t figure out what this exit code 12 means.
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Hi Jan,
looking at the source code of the Laravel Worker here: https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/12.x/src/Illuminate/Queue/Worker.php#L308 it returns the constant EXIT_MEMORY_LIMIT (with a value of 12) it the worker has exceeded the memory limit.
When running the php artisan queue:work command you can specify a memory limit with the --memory parameter:
--memory[=MEMORY] The memory limit in megabytes [default: "128"]
Try setting this to a higher value, like 256.
Hope this helps.
Daniel, Founder of Deckrun
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