# getTotalHits isn't the same on the same search
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gettotalhits-isnt-the-same-on-the-same-search/12894
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 23, 2013, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gettotalhits-isnt-the-same-on-the-same-search/12894 "2013-07-23T10:19:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Gaydenko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Gaydenko)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2013, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gettotalhits-isnt-the-same-on-the-same-search/12894/1 "2013-07-23T10:19:38Z")
On few sequential search requests getTotalHits returns different values.
Why?
Of course, there wasn't any indexing between requests.More over, there
wasn't any indexing since ES start 🙂
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2013, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gettotalhits-isnt-the-same-on-the-same-search/12894/2 "2013-07-23T10:31:44Z")
I've seen that in the past on a cluster with 2 nodes having shards with not the same number of docs due to a split brain issue.
Do you have one node or many?
Check number of docs per shard and look if there is a difference between primary and replicas.
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Le 23 juil. 2013 à 12:19, Andrew Gaydenko [andrew.gaydenko@gmail.com](mailto:andrew.gaydenko@gmail.com) a écrit :
> On few sequential search requests getTotalHits returns different values. Why?
> Of course, there wasn't any indexing between requests.More over, there wasn't any indexing since ES start 🙂
>
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Gaydenko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Gaydenko)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2013, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gettotalhits-isnt-the-same-on-the-same-search/12894/3 "2013-07-23T10:44:17Z")
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 2:31:44 PM UTC+4, David Pilato wrote:
> I've seen that in the past on a cluster with 2 nodes having shards with
> not the same number of docs due to a split brain issue.
> Do you have one node or many?
>
> Check number of docs per shard and look if there is a difference between
> primary and replicas.
I play with the only node with
index.number\_of\_shards: 1
index.number\_of\_replicas: 0
in config.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2013, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gettotalhits-isnt-the-same-on-the-same-search/12894/4 "2013-07-23T10:52:59Z")
That should not happen with the same exact query with no indexing / refreshing in the mean time.
What does your query look like?
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Le 23 juil. 2013 à 12:44, Andrew Gaydenko [andrew.gaydenko@gmail.com](mailto:andrew.gaydenko@gmail.com) a écrit :
> On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 2:31:44 PM UTC+4, David Pilato wrote:
> I've seen that in the past on a cluster with 2 nodes having shards with not the same number of docs due to a split brain issue.
> Do you have one node or many?
>
> Check number of docs per shard and look if there is a difference between primary and replicas.
>
> I play with the only node with
>
> index.number\_of\_shards: 1
> index.number\_of\_replicas: 0
>
> in config.
>
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Gaydenko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Gaydenko)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2013, 11:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gettotalhits-isnt-the-same-on-the-same-search/12894/5 "2013-07-23T11:01:18Z")
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 2:52:59 PM UTC+4, David Pilato wrote:
> That should not happen with the same exact query with no indexing /
> refreshing in the mean time.
You are absolutely right! It is my fault - the reason is in my code.
Please, forgive me.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gettotalhits-isnt-the-same-on-the-same-search/12894/6 "2017-07-06T02:25:05Z")