Cherrypicking a couple of commits, merge-conflicts later, but I'll deal with it then.

lib/remote_comms.js

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ const async = require('async');
 
 function Database() {
 
+    let thread_id='';
+
     this.sendQueue = async.queue(function (task, callback) {
         async.doUntil(
             function (intCallback) {
@@ -52,6 +54,13 @@ function Database() {
         process.send({type: 'sendRemote', body: wsData.toString('hex')});
     };
 
+    setInterval(function(queue_obj){
+        if (thread_id === '(Master) '){
+            console.log(global.database.thread_id + "Queue debug state: " + queue_obj.length() + " items in the queue " + queue_obj.running() + " items being processed");
+        }
+    }, 5000, this.sendQueue);
+
+
     this.initEnv = function(){
         this.data = null;
     };