# Elasticsearch 1.7 search query with no scoring
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-7-search-query-with-no-scoring/37410
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 16, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-7-search-query-with-no-scoring/37410 "2015-12-16T21:19:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@par\_compute](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/par_compute)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-7-search-query-with-no-scoring/37410/1 "2015-12-16T21:19:35Z")
There are 2 things that i want to achieve for performance reasons.
1. I want to disable sorting and scoring in the results, since my intent is to just
retrieve 1000 matches in the quickest fashion.
2. I have 5 shards, so if is there a way to tell elastic to just retrieve 200 from each
shard and put them together .... i.e. should I say size=200 or size=1000 ?
With sorting and relevancy, I would need to give size=1000, because elastic has to
do a global sort.. but if I don't care about order, what should I do?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-7-search-query-with-no-scoring/37410/3 "2017-07-05T23:30:23Z")