How often should I run the message consumers?

Question

Magento 2.4.6

I am running this every minute via cronjob:

php bin/magento cron:run; > /dev/null 2>&1
php bin/magento queue:consumers:start product_action_attribute.update &
php bin/magento queue:consumers:start codegeneratorProcessor &
php bin/magento queue:consumers:start exportProcessor &

After a couple of minutes, my SQL server states "too many connections". Tried disabling the cron job, which fixes the problem. I am sure its because of the consumers ... is this not the way to run them?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You don't need to run message consumers manually.

CRON will take care automatically for message queue.

To setup CRON correctly, Just run below command

php bin/magento cron:install

You can remove all entries from crontab which added manually and just setup CRON by running command php bin/magento cron:install