diff --git a/sonic/connection.go b/sonic/connection.go
index e3db3d9..877cb4d 100644
--- a/sonic/connection.go
+++ b/sonic/connection.go
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ import (
 )
 
 type connection struct {
-	reader *bufio.Reader
-	conn   net.Conn
+	reader      *bufio.Reader
+	conn        net.Conn
 	cmdMaxBytes int
-	closed bool
+	closed      bool
 }
 
 func newConnection(d *driver) (*connection, error) {
diff --git a/sonic/ingester.go b/sonic/ingester.go
index 7b01061..0d6f4ea 100644
--- a/sonic/ingester.go
+++ b/sonic/ingester.go
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
-	"sync"
 	"unicode/utf8"
 )
 
@@ -100,11 +99,11 @@ func NewIngester(host string, port int, password string) (Ingestable, error) {
 func (i ingesterChannel) Push(collection, bucket, object, text string) (err error) {
 	//
 	patterns := []struct {
-		Pattern string
-		Replacement     string
+		Pattern     string
+		Replacement string
 	}{{"\\", "\\\\"},
 		{"\n", "\\n"},
-		{"\"",  "\\\""}}
+		{"\"", "\\\""}}
 	for _, v := range patterns {
 		text = strings.Replace(text, v.Pattern, v.Replacement, -1)
 	}
@@ -136,7 +135,7 @@ func (i ingesterChannel) Push(collection, bucket, object, text string) (err erro
 // whereas slicing a string simply returns a new string header backed by the same array as the original
 // (taking constant time).
 func splitText(longString string, maxLen int) []string {
-	splits := []string{}
+	var splits []string
 
 	var l, r int
 	for l, r = 0, maxLen; r < len(longString); l, r = r, r+maxLen {
@@ -154,39 +153,41 @@ func (i ingesterChannel) BulkPush(collection, bucket string, parallelRoutines in
 		parallelRoutines = 1
 	}
 
-	errs = make([]IngestBulkError, 0)
-	errMutex := &sync.Mutex{}
-
 	// chunk array into N (parallelRoutines) parts
 	divided := divideIngestBulkRecords(records, parallelRoutines)
 
-	// dispatch each records array into N goroutines
-	group := sync.WaitGroup{}
-	group.Add(len(divided))
+	bulkErrorChan := make(chan []IngestBulkError)
+	defer close(bulkErrorChan)
+
 	for _, r := range divided {
-		go func(recs []IngestBulkRecord) {
-			conn, _ := newConnection(i.driver)
+		r := r
+		go func(driver *driver, collection, bucket string, recs []IngestBulkRecord, bulkErrorChan chan<- []IngestBulkError) {
+			errs := make([]IngestBulkError, 0)
+			newIngester, _ := NewIngester(driver.Host, driver.Port, driver.Password)
 
 			for _, rec := range recs {
-				if conn == nil {
-					addBulkError(&errs, rec, ErrClosed, errMutex)
-				}
-				err := i.Push(collection, bucket, rec.Object, rec.Text)
-				if err != nil {
-					addBulkError(&errs, rec, err, errMutex)
+				if newIngester == nil {
+					addBulkError(&errs, rec, ErrClosed)
 					continue
 				}
-				// sonic should sent OK
-				_, err = conn.read()
+				err := newIngester.Push(collection, bucket, rec.Object, rec.Text)
 				if err != nil {
-					addBulkError(&errs, rec, err, errMutex)
+					addBulkError(&errs, rec, err)
 				}
 			}
-			conn.close()
-			group.Done()
-		}(r)
+
+			if newIngester != nil {
+				_ = newIngester.Quit()
+			}
+			bulkErrorChan <- errs
+		}(i.driver, collection, bucket, r, bulkErrorChan)
 	}
-	group.Wait()
+
+	errs = make([]IngestBulkError, 0)
+	for range divided {
+		errs = append(errs, <-bulkErrorChan...)
+	}
+
 	return errs
 }
 
@@ -209,42 +210,44 @@ func (i ingesterChannel) BulkPop(collection, bucket string, parallelRoutines int
 		parallelRoutines = 1
 	}
 
-	errs = make([]IngestBulkError, 0)
-	errMutex := &sync.Mutex{}
-
 	// chunk array into N (parallelRoutines) parts
 	divided := divideIngestBulkRecords(records, parallelRoutines)
 
-	// dispatch each records array into N goroutines
-	group := sync.WaitGroup{}
-	group.Add(len(divided))
+	bulkErrorChan := make(chan []IngestBulkError)
+	defer close(bulkErrorChan)
+
 	for _, r := range divided {
-		go func(recs []IngestBulkRecord) {
-			conn, _ := newConnection(i.driver)
+		r := r
+		go func(driver *driver, collection, bucket string, recs []IngestBulkRecord, bulkErrorChan chan<- []IngestBulkError) {
+			errs := make([]IngestBulkError, 0)
+			newIngester, _ := NewIngester(driver.Host, driver.Port, driver.Password)
 
 			for _, rec := range recs {
-				if conn == nil {
-					addBulkError(&errs, rec, ErrClosed, errMutex)
-				}
-				err := conn.write(fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s %s %s %s \"%s\"",
-					pop, collection, bucket, rec.Object, rec.Text),
-				)
-				if err != nil {
-					addBulkError(&errs, rec, err, errMutex)
+				if newIngester == nil {
+					addBulkError(&errs, rec, ErrClosed)
 					continue
 				}
-				// sonic should sent OK
-				_, err = conn.read()
+
+				err := newIngester.Pop(collection, bucket, rec.Object, rec.Text)
+
 				if err != nil {
-					addBulkError(&errs, rec, err, errMutex)
+					addBulkError(&errs, rec, err)
 				}
 			}
-			conn.close()
-			group.Done()
-		}(r)
+
+			if newIngester != nil {
+				_ = newIngester.Quit()
+			}
+
+			bulkErrorChan <- errs
+		}(i.driver, collection, bucket, r, bulkErrorChan)
 	}
-	group.Wait()
+
+	errs = make([]IngestBulkError, 0)
+	for range divided {
+		errs = append(errs, <-bulkErrorChan...)
+	}
+
 	return errs
 }
 
@@ -328,8 +331,6 @@ func divideIngestBulkRecords(records []IngestBulkRecord, parallelRoutines int) [
 	return divided
 }
 
-func addBulkError(e *[]IngestBulkError, record IngestBulkRecord, err error, mutex *sync.Mutex) {
-	mutex.Lock()
-	defer mutex.Unlock()
+func addBulkError(e *[]IngestBulkError, record IngestBulkRecord, err error) {
 	*e = append(*e, IngestBulkError{record.Object, err})
 }
diff --git a/sonic/ingester_test.go b/sonic/ingester_test.go
index 271ec6c..f7f7e51 100644
--- a/sonic/ingester_test.go
+++ b/sonic/ingester_test.go
@@ -10,6 +10,27 @@ import (
 var records = make([]IngestBulkRecord, 0)
 var ingester, err = NewIngester("localhost", 1491, "SecretPassword")
 
+func BenchmarkIngesterChannel_BulkPush2XMaxCPUs(b *testing.B) {
+	if err != nil {
+		return
+	}
+
+	cpus := 2 * runtime.NumCPU()
+
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		e := ingester.FlushBucket("test", "test2XMaxCpus")
+		if e != nil {
+			b.Log(e)
+			b.Fail()
+		}
+		be := ingester.BulkPush("test", "test2XMaxCpus", cpus, records)
+		if len(be) > 0 {
+			b.Log(be, e)
+			b.Fail()
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 func BenchmarkIngesterChannel_BulkPushMaxCPUs(b *testing.B) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return
@@ -50,6 +71,25 @@ func BenchmarkIngesterChannel_BulkPush10(b *testing.B) {
 	}
 }
 
+func BenchmarkIngesterChannel_BulkPop10(b *testing.B) {
+	if err != nil {
+		return
+	}
+
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		e := ingester.FlushBucket("test", "popTest10")
+		if e != nil {
+			b.Log(e)
+			b.Fail()
+		}
+		be := ingester.BulkPop("test", "popTest10", 10, records)
+		if len(be) > 0 {
+			b.Log(be, err)
+			b.Fail()
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 func BenchmarkIngesterChannel_Push(b *testing.B) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return