Laravel - Queue Workers, High CPU
<p>I have a Laravel app (on Forge) that's posting messages to SQS.  I then have another box on Forge which is running Supervisor with queue workers that are consuming the messages from SQS.</p>

<p>Right now, I just have one daemon worker processing a particular tube of data from SQS.  When messages come up, they do take some time to process - anywhere from 30 to 60 seconds.  The memory usage on the box is fine, but the CPU spikes almost instantly and then everything seems to get slower.</p>

<p>Is there any way to handle this?  Should I instead dispatch many smaller jobs (which can be consumed by multiple workers) rather than one large job which can't be split amongst workers?</p>

<p>Also, I noted that Supervisor is only using one of my two cores.  Any way to have it use both?</p>