Query timing: 'took' value and what I'm measuring

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The time reported by elasticsearch in the "took" field is the time that it
took elasticsearch to process the query on its side. It doesn't include

  • serializing the request into JSON on the client

  • sending the request over the network

  • deserializing the request from JSON on the server

  • serializing the response into JSON on the server

  • sending the response over the network

  • deserializing the response from JSON on the client

On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 3:06:08 PM UTC-5, Daniel Weitzenfeld wrote:

I'm running some tests on Elastic Search to see if it's performant in our
particular situation.
My queries average ~130ms, according to the 'took' field returned by
Elastic Search. But when I time the query round trip, I'm getting ~820ms.
What might be causing this discrepancy? Am I misunderstanding the 'took'
field?

My setup:
Elasticsearch 0.19.0
amazon ec2 m2.xlarge box running Centos
talking to Elasticsearch via python pyes package, e.g.:

from pyes import *
import time

conn = ES('127.0.0.1:9200')

now=time.time()
response=conn.search_raw(my_query_dictionary)
now2=time.time()

now2-now
.82

response.took
130

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