# Returning Many Large Documents and Performace **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 25, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/returning-many-large-documents-and-performace/18336 "2014-06-25T15:05:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bbehling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f1d935/32.png) [@bbehling](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bbehling)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/returning-many-large-documents-and-performace/18336/1 "2014-06-25T15:05:08Z")
I'm executing a query where I could possibly return 100k results. The documents are quite large, about 3.6 kb per document, 312 mb for 100k of these. When executing the query in ES, the query itself is somewhat fast, about 5 seconds. But it takes longer than a minute to get the results back from the server. What can be done to improve this performance? Is ElasticSearch not meant to handle such large documents? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/290879ce-64cf-497e-b8c0-b962646daeae%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/290879ce-64cf-497e-b8c0-b962646daeae%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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, 1:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/returning-many-large-documents-and-performace/18336/2 "2017-07-06T01:19:47Z")