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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 t…

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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: elastic search 0.19.0 amazon ec2 m2.xlarge box running Centos talking to elastic search via python pyes package, e.g.: from pyes import * import time conn =...

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