diff --git a/crates/invoker-impl/src/lib.rs b/crates/invoker-impl/src/lib.rs
index 4bd3f5cfe..eb0fb5899 100644
--- a/crates/invoker-impl/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/invoker-impl/src/lib.rs
@@ -260,8 +260,9 @@ where
         let shutdown = cancellation_watcher();
         tokio::pin!(shutdown);
 
+        let in_memory_limit = updateable_options.load().in_memory_queue_length_limit();
         // Prepare the segmented queue
-        let mut segmented_input_queue = SegmentQueue::init(tmp_dir, 1_056_784)
+        let mut segmented_input_queue = SegmentQueue::init(tmp_dir, in_memory_limit)
             .await
             .expect("Cannot initialize input spillable queue");
 
diff --git a/crates/types/src/config/worker.rs b/crates/types/src/config/worker.rs
index 85c3fdf8f..877cba64b 100644
--- a/crates/types/src/config/worker.rs
+++ b/crates/types/src/config/worker.rs
@@ -125,6 +125,13 @@ pub struct InvokerOptions {
     /// If empty, the system temporary directory will be used instead.
     tmp_dir: Option<PathBuf>,
 
+    /// # Spill invocations to disk
+    ///
+    /// Defines the threshold after which queues invocations will spill to disk at
+    /// the path defined in `tmp-dir`. In other words, this is the number of invocations
+    /// that can be kept in memory before spilling to disk.
+    in_memory_queue_length_limit: NonZeroUsize,
+
     /// # Limit number of concurrent invocations from this node
     ///
     /// Number of concurrent invocations that can be processed by the invoker.
@@ -147,6 +154,10 @@ impl InvokerOptions {
         self.concurrent_invocations_limit.map(Into::into)
     }
 
+    pub fn in_memory_queue_length_limit(&self) -> usize {
+        self.in_memory_queue_length_limit.into()
+    }
+
     pub fn message_size_limit(&self) -> Option<usize> {
         self.message_size_limit.map(Into::into)
     }
@@ -162,6 +173,7 @@ impl Default for InvokerOptions {
                 None,
                 Some(Duration::from_secs(10)),
             ),
+            in_memory_queue_length_limit: NonZeroUsize::new(1_056_784).unwrap(),
             inactivity_timeout: Duration::from_secs(60).into(),
             abort_timeout: Duration::from_secs(60).into(),
             message_size_warning: NonZeroUsize::new(10_000_000).unwrap(), // 10MB