Python bulk interface changes in 2.0?

I am using the Python bulk API to insert meta-data into ES. I also parallelized the insertion processing using Python multiprocessing package in which fresh_interval is set to 30s.

After I changed to ES 2.0, it will report "time out" messge for the first 1,000 elements though I set it 30 seconds and even 60 seconds. Previous ES 1.7.2 doesn't have this problem.

Here is the code snippet, and actuall "size" is set to 1,000. If I understand the API correctly, chunk_size is the maximal size and the actual number of elements can be smaller than that. Is this correct in ES 2.0?


def tcp_worker(ES, sub_lines, index_name, size):
timeout_t = 30
tcp_dump_list = []
j = 0
for line in sub_lines:
line_list = line.split()
s_ip = line_list[2]
s_port = int(line_list[3])
d_ip = line_list[4]
d_port = int(line_list[5])
bytes = int(line_list[6])
packets= int(line_list[7])
state = int(line_list[8])

      new_stime = line_list[0] + "T" +  line_list[1] + "+08:00"
      a_tcp = {
                  "_index":        index_name,
                  "_type" : "tcp_state_type",
                  "_source": {
                        "@ts":     new_stime,
                        "sip":     s_ip,
                        "sport":   s_port,
                        "dip":     d_ip,
                        "dport":   d_port,
                        "packets": packets,
                        "bytes":   bytes,
                        "state":   state}
                       }
          tcp_dump_list.append(a_tcp)
          j += 1
          if ( (j % size) == 0) :
              try:
                  helpers.bulk(ES, tcp_dump_list, chunk_size=size, request_timeout=timeout_t)
              except Exception, e:
                  print "%dth chunk, Timeout=%d" %(j, timeout_t)
                  timeout_t = timeout_t + timeout_t
              del tcp_dump_list[0:size]

#remaining iterms
if (len(tcp_dump_list)>0) :
try:
helpers.bulk(ES, tcp_dump_list, chunk_size=size, request_timeout=timeout_t)
except Exception, e:
print "Error %s Timeout=%d" %(str(e), timeout_t)

I think the question here is: what changes had made in ES 2.0 compared to 1.7.x that affect _bulk indexing performance?

Which parameters should we tune in ES 2.0 to increase the indexing performance after using the _bulk API?