# Esrally running the same track by giving multiple laps not working **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** rally\ **Created:** [July 19, 2021, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/esrally-running-the-same-track-by-giving-multiple-laps-not-working/279035 "2021-07-19T08:48:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sameera\_De\_Silva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sameera_de_silva/32/91815_2.png) [@Sameera\_De\_Silva](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sameera_De_Silva)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/esrally-running-the-same-track-by-giving-multiple-laps-not-working/279035/1 "2021-07-19T08:48:20Z")
I want to run the same track repeatedly in a loop , because I want to do the benchmark performance testing for 3 hours. When I ran without lap count, it get completed within 30 minutes. However, even when I ran with below suggested laps , syntax it ends after 30 minutes . Highly appreciate any help regarding this . Thank you. RALLY\_LAPS=3 for lap in $(seq 1 ${RALLY\_LAPS}) do nohup /usr/local/bin/esrally --track-path=/home/sadesilva/samfiles --target-hosts=https://url.tools --pipeline=benchmark-only --client-options="use\_ssl:true,verify\_certs:false,basic\_auth\_user:'username',basic\_auth\_password:'password',timeout:120" \>\> rally\_stdout.log 2\>\> rally\_stderr.log \< /dev/null & done ---
**Author:** ![RickBoyd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rickboyd/32/80022_2.png) [@RickBoyd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RickBoyd)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/esrally-running-the-same-track-by-giving-multiple-laps-not-working/279035/2 "2021-07-19T13:36:08Z")
Hi @Sameera_De_Silva, thanks for using Rally! I believe the issue here is you end up running your tests concurrently with the trailing `&` in your command, as that will background the esrally task and move on to the next loop iteration. Hope that helps, Rick B ---
**Author:** ![Sameera\_De\_Silva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sameera_de_silva/32/91815_2.png) [@Sameera\_De\_Silva](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sameera_De_Silva)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 4:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/esrally-running-the-same-track-by-giving-multiple-laps-not-working/279035/3 "2021-07-20T04:53:12Z")
Thank you for the suggestion I ran again without trailing & sign, however the Esrally didn't get start. ---
**Author:** ![RickBoyd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rickboyd/32/80022_2.png) [@RickBoyd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RickBoyd)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/esrally-running-the-same-track-by-giving-multiple-laps-not-working/279035/4 "2021-07-20T12:45:04Z")
Can you share `rally_stderr.log`? `rally_stdout.log` if that is empty ---
**Author:** ![Sameera\_De\_Silva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sameera_de_silva/32/91815_2.png) [@Sameera\_De\_Silva](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sameera_De_Silva)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/esrally-running-the-same-track-by-giving-multiple-laps-not-working/279035/5 "2021-07-20T13:58:26Z")
Sure ,here attached , also I noticed that rally.log is got get created and Esrally is now running when I gave with out ![empty](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/9/994de7f48451c13f24c6149e995f86be94652c38.png) last & sign. I'll keep you posted about the status once it's finished. ---
**Author:** ![Sameera\_De\_Silva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sameera_de_silva/32/91815_2.png) [@Sameera\_De\_Silva](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sameera_De_Silva)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/esrally-running-the-same-track-by-giving-multiple-laps-not-working/279035/6 "2021-07-20T15:40:42Z")
Thank you [RickBoyd] running without trailing & got the Esrally running . However, when I check the overall document count, and the size, it was still same as I ran once . Could you suggest was that the expected behavior ? ---
**Author:** ![RickBoyd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rickboyd/32/80022_2.png) [@RickBoyd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RickBoyd)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/esrally-running-the-same-track-by-giving-multiple-laps-not-working/279035/7 "2021-07-20T15:59:58Z")
Hard to say without more specific information, but what it seems like you're looking at is the _most recent_ race outcome, in which case that would be correct. The script, as you've written and executed it, is simply running the race 3 times, and is not expected to aggregate the stats from the overall execution. ---
**Author:** ![Sameera\_De\_Silva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sameera_de_silva/32/91815_2.png) [@Sameera\_De\_Silva](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sameera_De_Silva)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/esrally-running-the-same-track-by-giving-multiple-laps-not-working/279035/8 "2021-07-21T10:22:11Z")
I attached the track.json that I used. > { > "version": 2, > "description": "Tutorial benchmark for Rally", > "indices": [ > { > "name": "customrecords", > "body": "", > "types": ["docs"] > } > ], > "corpora": [ > { > "name": "rally-tutorial", > "documents": [ > { > "source-file": "documents.json", > "document-count": 12109130, > "uncompressed-bytes": 12258880607, > "target-index": "geocustom" > } > , > { > "source-file": "samples.json", > "document-count": 859010, > "uncompressed-bytes": 523137083, > "target-index": "customrecords" > } > ] > } > ], > "schedule": [ > { > "operation": { > "operation-type": "create-index" > } > }, > { > "operation": { > "operation-type": "cluster-health", > "request-params": { > "wait\_for\_status": "green" > } > } > }, > { > "operation": { > "operation-type": "bulk", > "bulk-size": 100 > }, > "warmup-time-period": 120, > "clients": 8, > "target-throughput": 800 > } > ] > } ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/esrally-running-the-same-track-by-giving-multiple-laps-not-working/279035/9 "2021-08-18T10:22:20Z")
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