Restarting Laravel Queue Workers Safely

When managing background processes or queue workers in a production environment, Supervisor is often the go-to process control system. But if you’ve ever worked with Supervisor on a Linux server, you've likely come across these two commands: sudo service supervisor restart && sudo supervisorctl restart [program_name] They might look similar at a glance — both contain the word restart — but they operate at very different levels and are used in very different situations. Let’s break down what each command does, when to use it, and what to avoid in a production environment.

May 6, 2025 - 20:34
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Restarting Laravel Queue Workers Safely

When managing background processes or queue workers in a production environment, Supervisor is often the go-to process control system. But if you’ve ever worked with Supervisor on a Linux server, you've likely come across these two commands:

sudo service supervisor restart
&&
sudo supervisorctl restart [program_name]

They might look similar at a glance — both contain the word restart — but they operate at very different levels and are used in very different situations. Let’s break down what each command does, when to use it, and what to avoid in a production environment.