Indeed, the queue cannot use memcached. Redis will trivialize the time spent on actually queue operations, which could help if that is a bottleneck for job runners. If the actual jobs themselves are slow, of course it won't help too much.
Have you already tried setting the job run rate to 0 and is a background script instead?
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