converting back to write in bulk.  Previous commits, labelled 'logging', to generic writer, were
all about problem with handling accumulated data on startup.  When there was a lot of data,
all processes would try to read it in at the same time, fill up the queues and be stuck
in a loop with a full queue and no way to break out.  Added escape to processing so if q is
full, return and come back in later.  This worked.  This change is moving back to having a
bulk writer in effect, I had suspected this was related to the cause, it wasn't.