# Size query performance problems **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 6, 2018, 6:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-query-performance-problems/122637 "2018-03-06T06:02:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rotem\_Shriki](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rotem_shriki/32/28463_2.png) [@Rotem\_Shriki](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rotem_Shriki)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 6:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-query-performance-problems/122637/1 "2018-03-06T06:02:45Z")
Hi all, I have 3 nodes clusters on aws (c4 instances) and 245 docs in my elastic, when i try to limit the results to 50 using size:50, my performance degraded from 300ms to 2800ms ( without even using search\_after or from) , we tried to add from:0 but without success, my logs are empty. any help will be appreciated , response from server , sometimes took value is 2 "took": 1, "timed\_out": false, "\_shards": { "total": 5, "successful": 5, "skipped": 0, "failed": 0 }, Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-query-performance-problems/122637/2 "2018-03-06T16:34:30Z")
Can you share the full json output when you are getting this slow response please? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-query-performance-problems/122637/3 "2018-04-03T16:35:11Z")
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