Embodiments of the present invention disclose a queue management method. The method includes writing a PD queue to a DRAM, where the PD queue includes multiple PDs, and the multiple PDs correspond one-to-one to multiple packets included in a first packet queue. The method also includes writing at least one PD in the PD queue to an SRAM, where the at least one PD includes a queue head of the PD queue. Correspondingly, the embodiments of the present invention further disclose a queue management apparatus.