diff --git a/tests/profiling/dao.js b/tests/profiling/dao.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..25c7a52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/profiling/dao.js
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+function simulateNetwork() {
+    let tick = 0;
+    while(true) {
+        if (++tick > 0xffff) break;
+    }
+    return true;
+}
+
+function calculateResponseTime(numItems) {
+    return Math.round(30 + numItems * 0.5);
+}
+
+function getAssets(ids, { language }) {
+    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+        simulateNetwork();
+        setTimeout(() => resolve(ids.map(id => ({ id, language }))), calculateResponseTime(ids.length));
+    });
+}
+
+function getErroredRequest(ids, { language }) {
+    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      throw new Error('Something went wrong');
+    });
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+    getAssets,
+    getErroredRequest,
+};
diff --git a/tests/profiling/index.js b/tests/profiling/index.js
index 58f64c4..d2dbaba 100644
--- a/tests/profiling/index.js
+++ b/tests/profiling/index.js
@@ -6,77 +6,51 @@
 /* Requires ------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 
 const crypto = require('crypto');
-const {getAssets, getErroredRequest} = require('../integration/utils/dao.js');
 const settings = require('./settings');
-const HA = require('../../src/index.js');
+const {fork} = require('child_process');
+const path = require('path');
 
 /* Init ----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 
 // Setup
-const store = HA(settings.setup);
+const app = fork(path.resolve(__dirname, './testApp.js'));
 const startTime = Date.now();
 
-// Suite
-const suite = {
-  sampleRange: 2,
-  completed: 0,
-  cacheHits: 0,
-  sum: 0,
-  timeouts: 0,
-  batches: 0,
-  startHeap: process.memoryUsage().rss,
-};
-
-store.on('query', () => { suite.batches++; });
-store.on('cacheHit', () => { suite.cacheHits++; });
-
 async function hitStore() {
   if (Date.now() - startTime <  settings.test.testDuration) {
-    setTimeout(hitStore, settings.test.requestDelay);
-    let finished = false;
-    setTimeout(() => {
-      if (finished === false) suite.timeouts++;
-    }, 500);
+    process.nextTick(hitStore);
+    
     // Simulate normal z-distribution
-    suite.sampleRange = (Math.round(Math.random()*3) === 0) ? 1:2;
-    const randomError = (Math.round(Math.random()*10) === 0);
-    const id = crypto.randomBytes(suite.sampleRange).toString('hex');
+    let sampleRange = (Math.round(Math.random()*3) === 0) ? 1:2;
+    const id = crypto.randomBytes(sampleRange).toString('hex');
     const language = settings.test.languages[Math.floor(Math.random()*settings.test.languages.length)];
-    const before = Date.now();
-    if (randomError) store.config.resolver = getErroredRequest;
-    else store.config.resolver = getAssets;
-    store.get(id, { language }, crypto.randomBytes(8).toString('hex'))
-      .then((result) => {
-        if (!result || result.id !== id || result.language !== language) {
-          console.log(result, 'does not match', id, language);
-          throw new Error('integrity test failed');
-        }
-        suite.sum += (Date.now() - before);
-        finished = true;
-        suite.completed++;
-      }, () => {})
-      .catch((err) => { console.log(err); process.exit(1)} );
+    app.send({ id, language });
   }
   else {
-    console.log(`
-      ${suite.completed} completed requests
-      ${suite.cacheHits} cache hits
-      ${JSON.stringify(await store.size())}
-      ${suite.timeouts} timed out
-      avg response time ${(suite.sum / suite.completed).toFixed(3)}
-      ${suite.batches} queries sent
-      ${((process.memoryUsage().rss - suite.startHeap) / 1024).toFixed(2)} Kbytes allocated
-    `);
-    for (const expectation in settings.assert) {
-      if (suite[expectation] < settings.assert[expectation][0] || suite[expectation] > settings.assert[expectation][1]) {
-        console.log(expectation, 'did not match expectation', settings.assert[expectation]);
-        throw new Error('performance test failed');
-      }
-    }
-    
-    process.exit(0);
+    app.send('finish');
   }
 }
 
+app.on('message', async (suite) => {
+  console.log(`
+    ${suite.completed} completed requests
+    ${suite.cacheHits} cache hits
+    ${JSON.stringify(suite.size)} in memory
+    ${suite.timeouts} timed out
+    avg response time ${(suite.sum / suite.completed).toFixed(3)}
+    ${suite.batches} queries sent
+    ${suite.avgBatchSize} items per queries on average
+    ${(suite.startHeap / 1024).toFixed(2)} Kbytes allocated
+  `);
+
+  for (const expectation in settings.assert) {
+    if (suite[expectation] < settings.assert[expectation][0] || suite[expectation] > settings.assert[expectation][1]) {
+      console.error(new Error(`Performance test failed: ${expectation} did not match expectation ${settings.assert[expectation]}`));
+      process.exit(1);
+    }
+  }
+  process.exit(0);
+});
+
 hitStore();
 
diff --git a/tests/profiling/settings.js b/tests/profiling/settings.js
index 95deb72..aca4c9b 100644
--- a/tests/profiling/settings.js
+++ b/tests/profiling/settings.js
@@ -1,23 +1,24 @@
-const {getAssets} = require('../integration/utils/dao.js');
+const {getAssets} = require('./dao.js');
 
 module.exports = {
     test: {
-        testDuration: 60000,
+        testDuration: 1000,
         requestDelay: 0,
-        languages: ['fr', 'en', 'pr', 'it', 'ge']
+        languages: ['fr', 'en', 'ge', 'it', 'pr'],
     },
     setup: {
         resolver: getAssets,
         uniqueParams: ['language'],
         cache: { limit: 60000, steps: 5, base: 5000 },
-        batch: { tick: 2, limit: 50 },
+        batch: { tick: 10, max: 50 },
         retry: { base: 1, step: 2 },
     },
     assert: {
-        completed: [30000, 100000],
-        cacheHits: [1000, 4000],
-        timeouts: [500, 4000],
-        batches: [20000, 60000],
-        rss: [30000, 60000],
+        completed: [100000, 200000],
+        cacheHits: [25000, 70000],
+        timeouts: [500, 8000],
+        batches: [500, 4000],
+        rss: [90000, 200000],
+        avgBatchSize: [30, 50],
     },
 }
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diff --git a/tests/profiling/testApp.js b/tests/profiling/testApp.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..919b07a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/profiling/testApp.js
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/**
+ * Test app worker - allows us to saturate the request generator without impacting the app
+ */
+
+/* Requires ------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+
+const settings = require('./settings');
+const HA = require('../../src/index.js');
+const {getAssets,getErroredRequest} = require('./dao');
+const crypto = require('crypto');
+
+/* Local variables -----------------------------------------------------------*/
+
+let handbreak = false;
+
+const suite = {
+    completed: 0,
+    cacheHits: 0,
+    sum: 0,
+    timeouts: 0,
+    batches: 0,
+    avgBatchSize: 0,
+    startHeap: process.memoryUsage().rss,
+};
+
+const store = HA(settings.setup);
+
+/* Methods -------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+
+function handleRequest(id, language) {
+    const randomError = (Math.round(Math.random()*10) === 0);
+    let finished = false;
+    const before = Date.now();
+    setTimeout(() => {
+      if (finished === false) suite.timeouts++;
+    }, 500);
+    if (randomError) store.config.resolver = getErroredRequest;
+    else store.config.resolver = getAssets;
+    store.get(id, { language }, crypto.randomBytes(8).toString('hex'))
+    .then((result) => {
+        finished = true;
+        if (handbreak) return;
+        if (!result || result.id !== id || result.language !== language) {
+        console.log(result, 'does not match', id, language);
+        throw new Error('integrity test failed');
+        }
+        suite.sum += (Date.now() - before);
+        suite.completed++;
+    }, () => {})
+    .catch((err) => { console.log(err); process.exit(1)} );
+}
+
+store.on('query', batch => { suite.batches++; suite.avgBatchSize += batch.ids.length; });
+store.on('cacheHit', () => { suite.cacheHits++; });
+
+//End
+async function complete() {
+    handbreak = true;
+    suite.avgBatchSize = Math.round(suite.avgBatchSize / suite.batches);
+    suite.size = await store.size();
+    suite.startHeap = process.memoryUsage().rss - suite.startHeap;
+    
+    process.send(suite);
+}
+
+/* Init ----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+
+process.on('message', (msg) => msg === 'finish' ? complete() : handleRequest(msg.id, msg.language));