diff --git a/Benchmark.hs b/Benchmark.hs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a299ad7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Benchmark.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import Criterion.Main
+
+import Control.Monad (forM_, void)
+import qualified Database.MongoDB as M
+import Data.Bson (Document, Field(..), Label, Val, Value(String, Doc, Bool),
+                  Javascript, at, valueAt, lookup, look, genObjectId, (=:),
+                  (=?))
+
+import Database.MongoDB.Query
+
+import qualified Data.Text as T
+
+main = defaultMain [
+    bgroup "insert" [ bench "100" $ nfIO doInserts ]
+  ]
+
+doInserts = do
+    let docs = (flip map) [0..100] $ \i ->
+            ["name" M.=: (T.pack $ "name " ++ (show i))]
+
+    pipe <- M.connect (M.host "127.0.0.1")
+
+    forM_ docs $ \doc -> do
+      void $ M.access pipe M.master "mongodb-haskell-test" $ M.insert "bigCollection" doc
+
+    M.close pipe
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d7c7b0c..394a22a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Package Versioning Policy](https://wiki.haskell.org/Package_versioning_policy).
 
+## [Unreleased] - unreleased
+
+### Fixed
+- Slow requests to the database server.
+
 ## [2.0.6] - 2015-08-02
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/Database/MongoDB/Internal/Connection.hs b/Database/MongoDB/Internal/Connection.hs
index ddb23f8..d921941 100644
--- a/Database/MongoDB/Internal/Connection.hs
+++ b/Database/MongoDB/Internal/Connection.hs
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 module Database.MongoDB.Internal.Connection (
     Connection(..),
     readExactly,
-    writeLazy,
     fromHandle,
 ) where
 
@@ -52,9 +51,6 @@ readExactly conn count = go mempty count
   eof = mkIOError eofErrorType "Database.MongoDB.Internal.Connection"
                   Nothing Nothing
 
-writeLazy :: Connection -> Lazy.ByteString -> IO ()
-writeLazy conn = mapM_ (write conn) . Lazy.ByteString.toChunks
-
 fromHandle :: Handle -> IO Connection
 -- ^ Make connection form handle
 fromHandle handle = do
diff --git a/Database/MongoDB/Internal/Protocol.hs b/Database/MongoDB/Internal/Protocol.hs
index a5f389b..53db3be 100644
--- a/Database/MongoDB/Internal/Protocol.hs
+++ b/Database/MongoDB/Internal/Protocol.hs
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ module Database.MongoDB.Internal.Protocol (
 import Control.Applicative ((<$>))
 #endif
 import Control.Arrow ((***))
-import Control.Monad (forM_, replicateM, unless)
+import Control.Monad (forM, replicateM, unless)
 import Data.Binary.Get (Get, runGet)
 import Data.Binary.Put (Put, runPut)
 import Data.Bits (bit, testBit)
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import Data.Int (Int32, Int64)
 import Data.IORef (IORef, newIORef, atomicModifyIORef)
 import System.IO (Handle)
 import System.IO.Unsafe (unsafePerformIO)
+import Data.Maybe (maybeToList)
 
 import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as L
 
@@ -93,16 +94,20 @@ type Message = ([Notice], Maybe (Request, RequestId))
 writeMessage :: Connection -> Message -> IO ()
 -- ^ Write message to connection
 writeMessage conn (notices, mRequest) = do
-    forM_ notices $ \n -> writeReq . (Left n,) =<< genRequestId
-    whenJust mRequest $ writeReq . (Right *** id)
+    noticeStrings <- forM notices $ \n -> do
+          requestId <- genRequestId
+          let s = runPut $ putNotice n requestId
+          return $ (lenBytes s) `L.append` s
+
+    let requestString = do
+          (request, requestId) <- mRequest
+          let s = runPut $ putRequest request requestId
+          return $ (lenBytes s) `L.append` s
+
+    Connection.write conn $ L.toStrict $ L.concat $ noticeStrings ++ (maybeToList requestString)
     Connection.flush conn
  where
-    writeReq (e, requestId) = do
-        Connection.writeLazy conn lenBytes
-        Connection.writeLazy conn bytes
-     where
-        bytes = runPut $ (either putNotice putRequest e) requestId
-        lenBytes = encodeSize . toEnum . fromEnum $ L.length bytes
+    lenBytes bytes = encodeSize . toEnum . fromEnum $ L.length bytes
     encodeSize = runPut . putInt32 . (+ 4)
 
 type Response = (ResponseTo, Reply)
diff --git a/mongoDB.cabal b/mongoDB.cabal
index 1bda803..be589c0 100644
--- a/mongoDB.cabal
+++ b/mongoDB.cabal
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Source-repository head
 test-suite test
   hs-source-dirs: test
   main-is: Spec.hs
-  ghc-options:       -Wall
+  ghc-options:       -Wall -with-rtsopts "-K32m"
   type: exitcode-stdio-1.0
   build-depends:   mongoDB
                  , base
@@ -73,3 +73,27 @@ test-suite test
 
   default-language: Haskell2010
   default-extensions: OverloadedStrings
+
+Benchmark bench
+  main-is:            Benchmark.hs
+  type:               exitcode-stdio-1.0
+  Build-depends:      array -any
+                    , base < 5
+                    , binary -any
+                    , bson >= 0.3 && < 0.4
+                    , text
+                    , bytestring -any
+                    , containers -any
+                    , mtl >= 2
+                    , cryptohash -any
+                    , network -any
+                    , parsec -any
+                    , random -any
+                    , random-shuffle -any
+                    , monad-control >= 0.3.1
+                    , lifted-base >= 0.1.0.3
+                    , transformers-base >= 0.4.1
+                    , hashtables >= 1.1.2.0
+                    , criterion
+  default-language: Haskell2010
+  default-extensions: OverloadedStrings