# Disabling cache
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-cache/4969
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 26, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-cache/4969 "2011-07-26T23:30:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Adrian\_Gaudebert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adrian_Gaudebert)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-cache/4969/1 "2011-07-26T23:30:18Z")
Hi,
Is there a way to totally disable cache in ElasticSearch? To make sure every
query runs as if it was the first time? I would need it to run some
performance tests.
Thanks!
--
Adrian Gaudebert
WebDev Intern @ Mozilla
[http://adrian.gaudebert.fr](http://adrian.gaudebert.fr)
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### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-cache/4969/2 "2011-07-27T04:18:12Z")
Which caches are we talking about? The field data cache (the one for facets
/ sorting) is expensive to build, so running a performance tests without it
will bring the system to a crawl... (makes little sense to run it). The only
other cache in elasticsearch is the filter cache, which you can disable by
setting: index.cache.filter.type to none.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Adrian Gaudebert \<
[adrian.gaudebert@gmail.com](mailto:adrian.gaudebert@gmail.com)\> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to totally disable cache in Elasticsearch? To make sure
> every query runs as if it was the first time? I would need it to run some
> performance tests.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Adrian Gaudebert
> WebDev Intern @ Mozilla
> [http://adrian.gaudebert.fr](http://adrian.gaudebert.fr)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-cache/4969/3 "2017-07-06T03:59:10Z")