diff --git a/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/8_2_0/6784-remove-batch2-paginator.yaml b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/8_2_0/6784-remove-batch2-paginator.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9a8c20b18ed0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/8_2_0/6784-remove-batch2-paginator.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+type: fix
+issue: 6783
+title: "The batch2 job processor will no longer use paginator to queue workchunks as 'ready' due to performance bottleneck
+around saturation of available workchunk-processors or consumers"
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-storage-batch2-test-utilities/src/main/java/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/batch2/test/IWorkChunkErrorActionsTests.java b/hapi-fhir-storage-batch2-test-utilities/src/main/java/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/batch2/test/IWorkChunkErrorActionsTests.java
index 21d85b9f3d25..e406758f7dac 100644
--- a/hapi-fhir-storage-batch2-test-utilities/src/main/java/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/batch2/test/IWorkChunkErrorActionsTests.java
+++ b/hapi-fhir-storage-batch2-test-utilities/src/main/java/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/batch2/test/IWorkChunkErrorActionsTests.java
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ default void errorRetry_maxErrors_movesToFailed() {
 		assertEquals(WorkChunkStatusEnum.FAILED, chunk.getStatus());
 		assertEquals(4, chunk.getErrorCount());
 		assertThat(chunk.getErrorMessage()).as("Error message contains last error").contains(ERROR_MESSAGE_C);
-		assertThat(chunk.getErrorMessage()).as("Error message contains error count and complaint").contains("many errors: 4");
+		assertThat(chunk.getErrorMessage()).as("Error message contains error count and complaint").contains("many errors (4)");
 	}
 
 }
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-storage-batch2/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/batch2/maintenance/JobInstanceProcessor.java b/hapi-fhir-storage-batch2/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/batch2/maintenance/JobInstanceProcessor.java
index 199686301c82..6539de7f9a3d 100644
--- a/hapi-fhir-storage-batch2/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/batch2/maintenance/JobInstanceProcessor.java
+++ b/hapi-fhir-storage-batch2/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/batch2/maintenance/JobInstanceProcessor.java
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 import ca.uhn.fhir.batch2.progress.JobInstanceProgressCalculator;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.batch2.progress.JobInstanceStatusUpdater;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.model.api.IModelJson;
-import ca.uhn.fhir.model.api.PagingIterator;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.util.Logs;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.util.StopWatch;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DateUtils;
@@ -41,7 +40,6 @@
 import org.springframework.data.domain.Page;
 import org.springframework.data.domain.Pageable;
 
-import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.Set;
@@ -266,17 +264,6 @@ private boolean canAdvanceGatedJob(JobInstance theInstance) {
 		return workChunkStatuses.equals(Set.of(WorkChunkStatusEnum.COMPLETED));
 	}
 
-	protected PagingIterator<WorkChunkMetadata> getReadyChunks() {
-		return new PagingIterator<>(WORK_CHUNK_METADATA_BATCH_SIZE, (index, batchsize, consumer) -> {
-			Pageable pageable = Pageable.ofSize(batchsize).withPage(index);
-			Page<WorkChunkMetadata> results = myJobPersistence.fetchAllWorkChunkMetadataForJobInStates(
-					pageable, myInstanceId, Set.of(WorkChunkStatusEnum.READY));
-			for (WorkChunkMetadata metadata : results) {
-				consumer.accept(metadata);
-			}
-		});
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * Trigger the reduction step for the given job instance. Reduction step chunks should never be queued.
 	 */
@@ -292,27 +279,56 @@ private void triggerReductionStep(JobInstance theInstance, JobWorkCursor<?, ?, ?
 	 * for processing.
 	 */
 	private void enqueueReadyChunks(JobInstance theJobInstance, JobDefinition<?> theJobDefinition) {
-		Iterator<WorkChunkMetadata> iter = getReadyChunks();
-
-		int counter = 0;
-		while (iter.hasNext()) {
-			WorkChunkMetadata metadata = iter.next();
-
-			/*
-			 * For each chunk id
-			 * * Move to QUEUE'd
-			 * * Send to topic
-			 * * flush changes
-			 * * commit
-			 */
-			updateChunkAndSendToQueue(metadata);
-			counter++;
-		}
-		ourLog.debug(
-				"Encountered {} READY work chunks for job {} of type {}",
-				counter,
-				theJobInstance.getInstanceId(),
-				theJobDefinition.getJobDefinitionId());
+		// timebox to prevent unusual amount of time updating resources
+		long minuteMS = 60 * 1000;
+		long deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + DateUtils.MILLIS_PER_MINUTE;
+		boolean done = false;
+		do {
+			// Paginator has an issue keeping worker nodes saturated due to processing workloads a page at a time
+			// PageNumber '0' is hardcoded to re-saturate 10k records to process at a time instead
+			// Each consecutive request for results will be the next 10k records needing updating (no paging needed)
+			// Recommend this eventually moves to java stream once architecture supports the change
+			Pageable pageable = Pageable.ofSize(WORK_CHUNK_METADATA_BATCH_SIZE).withPage(0);
+			Page<WorkChunkMetadata> results = myJobPersistence.fetchAllWorkChunkMetadataForJobInStates(
+					pageable, myInstanceId, Set.of(WorkChunkStatusEnum.READY));
+			if (results.isEmpty()) {
+				done = true;
+			}
+			int counter = 0;
+
+			if (!done) {
+				for (WorkChunkMetadata metadata : results) {
+					/*
+					 * For each chunk id
+					 * * Move to QUEUE'd
+					 * * Send to topic
+					 * * flush changes
+					 * * commit
+					 */
+					updateChunkAndSendToQueue(metadata);
+					counter++;
+				}
+			}
+			// catch to prevent unlimited looping
+			if (counter < WORK_CHUNK_METADATA_BATCH_SIZE) {
+				done = true;
+			}
+			ourLog.debug(
+					"Encountered {} READY work chunks for job {} of type {}",
+					counter,
+					theJobInstance.getInstanceId(),
+					theJobDefinition.getJobDefinitionId());
+
+			// Log warning and exit if deadline is exceeded
+			if (System.currentTimeMillis() >= deadline) {
+				ourLog.warn(
+						"Deadline exceeded while processing job {} of type {}. Some chunks may not have been processed.",
+						theJobInstance.getInstanceId(),
+						theJobDefinition.getJobDefinitionId());
+				break;
+			}
+
+		} while (!done);
 	}
 
 	/**