I'd like a to add a hard timeout on some of my sharded requests. E.g.: for about 30% of the requests, I want to wait no longer than 120ms before a response comes back, but aggregating results from as many shards as possible in that 120ms.
My first attempt was to use timeAllowed=120&shards.tolerant=true. This sort of works, in that I'll see partial results occasionally, but slow shards will still take much longer than my timeout to return, sometimes up to 700ms. I imagine if the CPU is busy or the node is GC-ing that it won't be able to enforce the timeAllowed and return. Is there a way to enforce this timeout without failing the request entirely? I'd still like to get as many shards to return in 120ms as I can, even if they have partialResults. Thanks. --Gregg
