diff --git a/src/queue.ts b/src/queue.ts
index 6ff6010..e6531ee 100644
--- a/src/queue.ts
+++ b/src/queue.ts
@@ -12,11 +12,12 @@ import os from 'os';
 
 let connection: any = null;
 let consumer: any = null;
+export const count = {queued : undefined, ack: 0, nack: 0};
 
 async function exitHandler(evtOrExitCodeOrError: number | string | Error) {
   try {
     if (connection) {
-      console.log('closing, waiting for all the messages being processed');
+      console.log('closing after processing', count.ack,"and rejecting",count.nack);
       await consumer.close();
       await connection.close();
     }
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ export const connect = (queueUrl: string) => {
   });
   rabbit.on('connection', () => {
     console.log('Connection successfully (re)established');
+//await ch.close()
   });
 
   process.once('SIGINT', exitHandler),
@@ -114,6 +116,7 @@ export const syncQueue = async (
           throw new Error ("the syncer must return a boolean");
         }
         if (!processed) {
+          count.nack++;
           if (msg.redelivered) {
             console.error('already requeued, push to dead-letter', action?.actionId ? 'Action Id:' + action.actionId : '!');
             return ConsumerStatus.DROP;
@@ -122,6 +125,7 @@ export const syncQueue = async (
           console.error('we need to nack and requeue', action?.actionId ? 'Action Id:' + action.actionId : '!');
           return ConsumerStatus.REQUEUE; // nack + requeue
         }
+        count.ack++;
         return ConsumerStatus.ACK;
       } catch (e) {
         // if the syncer throw an error it's a permanent problem, we need to close
@@ -134,6 +138,20 @@ export const syncQueue = async (
       throw new Error ("message not properly processed #" +action?.actionId);
     }
   );
+
+  const messageCount = async () => {
+    const {messageCount} = await sub._ch.queueDeclare({
+      queue: sub._queue, 
+      passive: true
+    })
+    console.log("messages in the queue",messageCount);
+    count.queued= messageCount;
+  }
+
+  sub.on('ready', async () => {
+   await messageCount();
+  });
+
   sub.on('error', (err: any) => {
     // Maybe the consumer was cancelled, or the connection was reset before a
     // message could be acknowledged.