diff --git a/src/script/hydra-eval-jobset b/src/script/hydra-eval-jobset
index 793101654..4c5cbf742 100755
--- a/src/script/hydra-eval-jobset
+++ b/src/script/hydra-eval-jobset
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ use Hydra::Helper::Nix;
 use Hydra::Model::DB;
 use Hydra::Plugin;
 use Hydra::Schema;
+use IPC::Run;
 use JSON::MaybeXS;
 use Net::Statsd;
 use Nix::Store;
@@ -383,23 +384,33 @@ sub evalJobs {
         print STDERR "evaluator: @escaped\n";
     }
 
-    (my $res, my $jobsJSONLines, my $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(21600, @cmd);
-    die "nix-eval-jobs returned " . ($res & 127 ? "signal $res" : "exit code " . ($res >> 8))
-        . ":\n" . ($stderr ? decode("utf-8", $stderr) : "(no output)\n")
-        if $res;
-
-    print STDERR "$stderr";
+    my $h = IPC::Run::start \@cmd,
+            '>', IPC::Run::new_chunker, \my $out,
+            '2>', \my $err;
+
+    return sub {
+        while (1) {
+            $h->pump;
+            if (!defined $out && !defined $err) {
+                $h->finish;
+                if ($?) {
+                    die "nix-eval-jobs returned " . ($? & 127 ? "signal $?" : "exit code " . ($? >> 8)) . "\n";
+                }
+                return;
+            }
 
-    # XXX: take advantage of nix-eval-jobs's streaming instead of parsing everything in one block at
-    # the end.
-    my @jobs;
-    foreach my $line (split(/\n/, $jobsJSONLines)) {
-      last if $line eq "";
+            if (defined $err) {
+                print STDERR "$err";
+                undef $err;
+            }
 
-      push(@jobs, decode_json($line));
+            if (defined $out && $out ne '') {
+                my $job = decode_json($out);
+                undef $out;
+                return $job;
+            }
+        }
     };
-
-    return @jobs;
 }
 
 
@@ -716,17 +727,11 @@ sub checkJobsetWrapped {
 
     # Evaluate the job expression.
     my $evalStart = clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC);
-    my @jobs = evalJobs($project->name . ":" . $jobset->name, $inputInfo, $jobset->nixexprinput, $jobset->nixexprpath, $flakeRef);
-    my $evalStop = clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC);
-
-    if ($jobsetsJobset) {
-        die "The .jobsets jobset must only have a single job named 'jobsets'"
-            unless (scalar @jobs) == 1 && $jobs[0]->{attr} eq "jobsets";
-    }
-    Net::Statsd::timing("hydra.evaluator.eval_time", int(($evalStop - $evalStart) * 1000));
+    my $evalStop;
+    my $jobsIter = evalJobs($project->name . ":" . $jobset->name, $inputInfo, $jobset->nixexprinput, $jobset->nixexprpath, $flakeRef);
 
     if ($dryRun) {
-        foreach my $job (@jobs) {
+        while (defined(my $job = $jobsIter->())) {
             my $name = $job->{attr};
             if (defined $job->{drvPath}) {
                 print STDERR "good job $name: $job->{drvPath}\n";
@@ -737,31 +742,20 @@ sub checkJobsetWrapped {
         return;
     }
 
-    my $jobOutPathMap = {};
-    my $jobsetChanged = 0;
-    my $dbStart = clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC);
-
-
     # Store the error messages for jobs that failed to evaluate.
     my $evaluationErrorTime = time;
     my $evaluationErrorMsg = "";
-    foreach my $job (@jobs) {
-        next unless defined $job->{error};
-        $evaluationErrorMsg .=
-            ($job->{attr} ne "" ? "in job ‘$job->{attr}’" : "at top-level") .
-            ":\n" . $job->{error} . "\n\n";
-    }
-    setJobsetError($jobset, $evaluationErrorMsg, $evaluationErrorTime);
-
     my $evaluationErrorRecord = $db->resultset('EvaluationErrors')->create(
         { errormsg => $evaluationErrorMsg
         , errortime => $evaluationErrorTime
         }
     );
 
+    my $jobOutPathMap = {};
+    my $jobsetChanged = 0;
     my %buildMap;
-    $db->txn_do(sub {
 
+    $db->txn_do(sub {
         my $prevEval = getPrevJobsetEval($db, $jobset, 1);
 
         # Clear the "current" flag on all builds.  Since we're in a
@@ -774,7 +768,7 @@ sub checkJobsetWrapped {
             , evaluationerror => $evaluationErrorRecord
             , timestamp => time
             , checkouttime => abs(int($checkoutStop - $checkoutStart))
-            , evaltime => abs(int($evalStop - $evalStart))
+            , evaltime => 0
             , hasnewbuilds => 0
             , nrbuilds => 0
             , flake => $flakeRef
@@ -782,11 +776,18 @@ sub checkJobsetWrapped {
             , nixexprpath => $jobset->nixexprpath
             });
 
-        # Schedule each successfully evaluated job.
-        foreach my $job (permute(@jobs)) {
-            next if defined $job->{error};
-            #print STDERR "considering job " . $project->name, ":", $jobset->name, ":", $job->{jobName} . "\n";
-            checkBuild($db, $jobset, $ev, $inputInfo, $job, \%buildMap, $prevEval, $jobOutPathMap, $plugins);
+        while (defined(my $job = $jobsIter->())) {
+            if ($jobsetsJobset) {
+                die "The .jobsets jobset must only have a single job named 'jobsets'"
+                    unless $job->{attr} eq "jobsets";
+            }
+
+            $evaluationErrorMsg .=
+                ($job->{attr} ne "" ? "in job ‘$job->{attr}’" : "at top-level") .
+                ":\n" . $job->{error} . "\n\n" if defined $job->{error};
+
+            checkBuild($db, $jobset, $ev, $inputInfo, $job, \%buildMap, $prevEval, $jobOutPathMap, $plugins)
+                unless defined $job->{error};
         }
 
         # Have any builds been added or removed since last time?
@@ -846,11 +847,15 @@ sub checkJobsetWrapped {
         $jobset->update({ enabled => 0 }) if $jobset->enabled == 2;
 
         $jobset->update({ lastcheckedtime => time, forceeval => undef });
-    });
 
-    my $dbStop = clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC);
+        $evaluationErrorRecord->update({ errormsg => $evaluationErrorMsg });
+        setJobsetError($jobset, $evaluationErrorMsg, $evaluationErrorTime);
 
-    Net::Statsd::timing("hydra.evaluator.db_time", int(($dbStop - $dbStart) * 1000));
+        $evalStop = clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC);
+        $ev->update({ evaltime => abs(int($evalStop - $evalStart)) });
+    });
+
+    Net::Statsd::timing("hydra.evaluator.eval_time", int(($evalStop - $evalStart) * 1000));
     Net::Statsd::increment("hydra.evaluator.evals");
     Net::Statsd::increment("hydra.evaluator.cached_evals") unless $jobsetChanged;
 }