# Can I run indexing-task and searching-task in parallel？

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-run-indexing-task-and-searching-task-in-parallel/69446>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** rally\
**Created:** [December 19, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-run-indexing-task-and-searching-task-in-parallel/69446 "2016-12-19T13:05:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![a943013827](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f475e1/32.png) [@a943013827](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a943013827)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-run-indexing-task-and-searching-task-in-parallel/69446/1 "2016-12-19T13:05:35Z")

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Now I need to test the performance of elasticsearch while indexing and searching .  
But according to [http://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/latest/adding\_tracks.html#running-tasks-in-parallel](http://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/latest/adding_tracks.html#running-tasks-in-parallel) it seems that esrally only support Running searching-task in parallel.  
as follows：  
{  
"parallel": {  
"warmup-iterations": 1000,  
"iterations": 1000,  
"tasks": [  
{  
"operation": "default",  
"target-throughput": 50  
},  
{  
"operation": "term",  
"target-throughput": 200  
},  
{  
"operation": "phrase",  
"target-throughput": 200  
},  
{  
"operation": "country\_agg\_uncached",  
"target-throughput": 50  
}  
]  
}  
}  
]  
}  
how can i modify it ，thank you！

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**Author:** ![danielmitterdorfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/danielmitterdorfer/32/110510_2.png) [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-run-indexing-task-and-searching-task-in-parallel/69446/2 "2016-12-19T13:21:05Z")

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Hi @a943013827,

this scenario should work fine with Rally. See the [last example in the track reference](http://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/latest/track.html#examples).

Daniel

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**Author:** ![a943013827](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f475e1/32.png) [@a943013827](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a943013827)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 3:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-run-indexing-task-and-searching-task-in-parallel/69446/3 "2016-12-20T03:53:36Z")

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thank you very much

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**Author:** ![a943013827](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f475e1/32.png) [@a943013827](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a943013827)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 6:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-run-indexing-task-and-searching-task-in-parallel/69446/4 "2016-12-20T06:51:29Z")

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Hi Daniel  
Another question is how can i run rally with decompressed data,I saw someone who has raised the question and solved it,but he didn't give the answer.

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**Author:** ![danielmitterdorfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/danielmitterdorfer/32/110510_2.png) [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-run-indexing-task-and-searching-task-in-parallel/69446/5 "2016-12-20T07:05:53Z")

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Hi @a943013827,

yes, you can decompress data ahead of time if you want to do that. You just need to keep the compressed file (I think) otherwise Rally will attempt to download the data again.

Btw, topics without activity close automatically after some period of time (4 weeks IIRC).

Can you please open one topic per question in the future instead of reusing this existing thread? This helps other users find the relevant discussions more easily. Thanks! 🙂

Daniel

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-run-indexing-task-and-searching-task-in-parallel/69446/6 "2017-01-17T07:05:54Z")

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