Your Laravel queue workers keep 8 copies of your app in memory

This post explains why Laravel queue workers and Horizon supervisors each keep their own compiled copy of your app in memory, and how that adds up fast on smaller servers. It also introduces queue-prefork, a package that shares opcache across forked workers and dramatically cuts memory usage without changing job throughput. Read more

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