Pending Jobs in the system checker

JamesKimmel · May 28, 2026, 9:46am

Version v5.13.22-C191

Environment: bare metal, self hosted

Checklist

Have you searched existing issues? Yes
Have you inspected the logs in storage/logs/laravel.log for any errors? Yes

Describe the bug

I am having over 1000 pending jobs in the system checker. The accumulated over time, even though I did not have had autobilling enabled or used the integrated mail.

Expected Behavior

No pending jobs.

Additional context

running
sudo -u www-data php artisan queue:flush
did not empty the queue

hillel · May 28, 2026, 9:49am

Hi,

You may want to check in the database what the jobs are for.

I believe you can use queue:clear to clear pending jobs.

JamesKimmel · May 28, 2026, 1:59pm

That did not clear it.

hillel · May 28, 2026, 5:59pm

Try:

php artisan queue:work database --queue=scout

JamesKimmel · June 2, 2026, 8:00am

That indeed solved it, but the queue is growing again.
What am I missing?

hillel · June 2, 2026, 8:50am

Are you using the latest version of the app?

JamesKimmel · June 2, 2026, 10:04am

Yes

hillel · June 2, 2026, 10:30am

Try adding this to the .env file:

SCOUT_DRIVER=null

And then run:

php artisan optimize

JamesKimmel · June 23, 2026, 9:55am

It is still growing again.

Latest error in the logs:

[2026-06-23 06:20:02] production.INFO: Performing Autobilling 2026-06-23 06:20:02

that is why I wonder if the autobilling (that I don’t use, nor have configured anywhere knowingly) is causing this.

hillel · June 23, 2026, 10:12am

I suggest asking in a discussion on GitHub.