diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3d6a657365..eebbf8f026 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ This is a list of high-level changes for each release of AWX. A full list of com
 - Updated the AWX CLI to export labels associated with Workflow Job Templates - https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/7847
 - Updated to the latest python-ldap to address a bug - https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/7868
 - Upgraded git-python to fix a bug that caused workflows to sometimes fail - https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/6119
+- Worked around a bug in the channels_redis library that slowly causes Daphne processes to leak memory over time - https://github.com/django/channels_redis/issues/212
 - Fixed a bug in the AWX CLI that prevented Workflow nodes from importing properly - https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/7793
 - Fixed a bug in the awx.awx collection release process that templated the wrong version - https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/7870
 - Fixed a bug that caused errors rendering stdout that contained UTF-16 surrogate pairs - https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/7918
diff --git a/awx/main/consumers.py b/awx/main/consumers.py
index b6d8872ebd..d32219b3ac 100644
--- a/awx/main/consumers.py
+++ b/awx/main/consumers.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import collections
+import functools
 import json
 import logging
 import time
@@ -12,12 +14,40 @@ from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from channels.generic.websocket import AsyncJsonWebsocketConsumer
 from channels.layers import get_channel_layer
 from channels.db import database_sync_to_async
+from channels_redis.core import RedisChannelLayer
 
 
 logger = logging.getLogger('awx.main.consumers')
 XRF_KEY = '_auth_user_xrf'
 
 
+class BoundedQueue(asyncio.Queue):
+
+    def put_nowait(self, item):
+        if self.full():
+            # dispose the oldest item
+            # if we actually get into this code block, it likely means that
+            # this specific consumer has stopped reading
+            # unfortunately, channels_redis will just happily continue to
+            # queue messages specific to their channel until the heat death
+            # of the sun: https://github.com/django/channels_redis/issues/212
+            # this isn't a huge deal for browser clients that disconnect,
+            # but it *does* cause a problem for our global broadcast topic
+            # that's used to broadcast messages to peers in a cluster
+            # if we get into this code block, it's better to drop messages
+            # than to continue to malloc() forever
+            self.get_nowait()
+        return super(BoundedQueue, self).put_nowait(item)
+
+
+class ExpiringRedisChannelLayer(RedisChannelLayer):
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kw):
+        super(ExpiringRedisChannelLayer, self).__init__(*args, **kw)
+        self.receive_buffer = collections.defaultdict(
+            functools.partial(BoundedQueue, self.capacity)
+        )
+
+
 class WebsocketSecretAuthHelper:
     """
     Middlewareish for websockets to verify node websocket broadcast interconnect.
diff --git a/awx/settings/defaults.py b/awx/settings/defaults.py
index 355d247f62..716aea3aa7 100644
--- a/awx/settings/defaults.py
+++ b/awx/settings/defaults.py
@@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ ASGI_APPLICATION = "awx.main.routing.application"
 
 CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
     "default": {
-        "BACKEND": "channels_redis.core.RedisChannelLayer",
+        "BACKEND": "awx.main.consumers.ExpiringRedisChannelLayer",
         "CONFIG": {
             "hosts": [BROKER_URL],
             "capacity": 10000,