# Elastic Search Returns inconsistent results when running on a single node **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 29, 2014, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-returns-inconsistent-results-when-running-on-a-single-node/20476 "2014-10-29T10:49:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yasaswani\_Koduri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bcef8e/32.png) [@Yasaswani\_Koduri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yasaswani_Koduri)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-returns-inconsistent-results-when-running-on-a-single-node/20476/1 "2014-10-29T10:49:35Z")
We have indexed Data using elastic search on a single node. And we have a thread running in the background used for updating the index with the recent changes. Now we are using elastic search API's to run the search query. However , the search query returns inconsistent results. On rerunning the same query continuously, sometime we get 0 results, sometime partial results and at sometimes we get complete results. We have not set any timeout for the queries. We are facing this issue in a cluster where only one node is an indexing node . This is happening on one of the production environments. Options tried out: Refreshed index - did not work. Deleted the index and built it completely again. - still the same issue inconsistent results Could you let us know what might be causing this issue.? ---
**Author:** ![Yasaswani\_Koduri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bcef8e/32.png) [@Yasaswani\_Koduri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yasaswani_Koduri)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 5:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-returns-inconsistent-results-when-running-on-a-single-node/20476/2 "2014-10-30T05:34:57Z")
The issue has been resolved. We are setting a timeout value of zero at some place in our code . This has caused the issue. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-returns-inconsistent-results-when-running-on-a-single-node/20476/3 "2017-07-06T00:53:05Z")