# Distributing Load Test Driver: Does It Split Search Operations?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/distributing-load-test-driver-does-it-split-search-operations/363437>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** rally\
**Created:** [July 19, 2024, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/distributing-load-test-driver-does-it-split-search-operations/363437 "2024-07-19T13:13:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![RafaelAdao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rafaeladao/32/115248_2.png) [@RafaelAdao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RafaelAdao)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/distributing-load-test-driver-does-it-split-search-operations/363437/1 "2024-07-19T13:13:40Z")

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I'm currently running benchmarks using ESRally with a distributed setup for the load test driver. When distributing the load test driver, are search operations also split across the different nodes/drivers?

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**Author:** ![json](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/json/32/4125_2.png) [@json](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/json)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 3:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/distributing-load-test-driver-does-it-split-search-operations/363437/2 "2024-07-19T15:35:23Z")

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Hi Rafael, welcome back 🙂

In a distributed setup, Rally splits the workload to multiple load drivers according to the number of clients. In other words, if N number of clients has been designated to a search operation, then you can expect Rally to divide N by the number of load drivers to handle search requests.

Thank you,  
Jason