Cleaned Workflow History List - Workflow Pausing State failed to resume

Hi All,
SPD workflow is pausing for some duration once it resume send mail and pause again as per some business condition, it repeat 9-10 times only.
Pausing duration is 1 week
Couple of months, It was working fine, then suddenly it starts showing the status "Failed to Start (retrying)" getting a result but not 100% accurate, some times its start firing unwanted mails to target audience.
Then I checked all the jobs which were running ,but workflow history list was showing more than 100K + records and exceeding threshold limit i.e. 5K, then i delete the record from the workflow history list and figure come down to 1K only. After that,
as i created the item and start same workflow, its never resume , even i pause it for 10 minutes and checked after 2 days, still in pausing state. I spend 3-4 days to explore it. but didn't get any success . Please suggest for the same.
Thanks and Regards..
Manoj Mittal

Hi Cowboy,
Per my knowledge, if we delete the workflow history list items, it will not affect the workflows waiting to be triggered.
However, if you go to the workflow status page, the history will be empty as the events
have been deleted in workflow history list.
The code in your post will delete 2000 items in workflow history list.
As there is no status for the items in workflow history list, so I recommend to use the date as the query condition.
For example, if you want to delete items created between 2015-02-01 and 2015-02-16, then you can change the query as below in your code:
$query="<Where><And><Geq><FieldRef Name='Created'/><Value Type='DateTime'>2015-02-01T00:00:00Z</Value></Geq><Leq><FieldRef Name='Created' /><Value Type='DateTime'>2015-02-01T00:00:00Z</Value></Leq></And> </Where>"
$spQuery=$query
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Hi Cowboy,
Per my knowledge, if we delete the workflow history list items, it will not affect the workflows waiting to be triggered.
However, if you go to the workflow status page, the history will be empty as the events
have been deleted in workflow history list.
The code in your post will delete 2000 items in workflow history list.
As there is no status for the items in workflow history list, so I recommend to use the date as the query condition.
For example, if you want to delete items created between 2015-02-01 and 2015-02-16, then you can change the query as below in your code:
$query="<Where><And><Geq><FieldRef Name='Created'/><Value Type='DateTime'>2015-02-01T00:00:00Z</Value></Geq><Leq><FieldRef Name='Created' /><Value Type='DateTime'>2015-02-01T00:00:00Z</Value></Leq></And> </Where>"
$spQuery=$query
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Hi，
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