diff --git a/misc/workers/es_indexer_daemon.pl b/misc/workers/es_indexer_daemon.pl
index 9e900b7195..8edf55200a 100755
--- a/misc/workers/es_indexer_daemon.pl
+++ b/misc/workers/es_indexer_daemon.pl
@@ -64,9 +64,8 @@ use Koha::BackgroundJobs;
 use Koha::SearchEngine;
 use Koha::SearchEngine::Indexer;
 
-
-my ( $help, $batch_size );
-
+my $help;
+my $batch_size = 10;
 my $not_found_retries = {};
 my $max_retries = $ENV{MAX_RETRIES} || 10;
 
@@ -77,8 +76,6 @@ GetOptions(
 
 pod2usage(0) if $help;
 
-$batch_size //= 10;
-
 warn "Not using Elasticsearch" unless C4::Context->preference('SearchEngine') eq 'Elasticsearch';
 
 my $logger = Koha::Logger->get({ interface =>  'worker' });
@@ -171,7 +168,9 @@ while (1) {
 
     } else {
         @jobs = Koha::BackgroundJobs->search(
-            { status => 'new', queue => 'elastic_index' } )->as_list;
+            { status => 'new', queue => 'elastic_index' },
+            { rows   => $batch_size }
+        )->as_list;
         commit(@jobs);
         @jobs = ();
         sleep 10;