# ES query returning unusual results
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-query-returning-unusual-results/16596
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 25, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-query-returning-unusual-results/16596 "2014-03-25T20:46:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@al\_smith951](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/al_smith951)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-query-returning-unusual-results/16596/1 "2014-03-25T20:46:25Z")
I have an ES cluster running ES 1.0.1 on 10 nodes, where an index is has 5
shards each with 1 replica.
Doing the following query kept alternately returning two distinct result
counts, say 103799 and 104430. I've since carefully removed 5 nodes from my
cluster and now for the same query I'm getting the same value consistently.
Anyone any idea what might have been going on? Unfortunately I can't
reproduce the behaviour any longer.
Regards,
Al.
[http://es0:9200/](http://es0:9200/) [http://eng-ops.lab.nbttech.com:9200/heartbeats](http://eng-ops.lab.nbttech.com:9200/heartbeats)foo
GET \_search
{ "query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"term": {
"product": "bar"
}
},
{
"term": {
"subtext": "true"
}
}
]
}
}
}
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### Author:  [@Binh\_Ly\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Binh_Ly_2)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-query-returning-unusual-results/16596/2 "2014-03-26T17:47:10Z")
If indexing was live/active, it probably was just your replicas not caught
up to the primaries for split seconds.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-query-returning-unusual-results/16596/3 "2017-07-06T01:40:28Z")