# Why elasticsearch results are not consistant?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-elasticsearch-results-are-not-consistant/20260
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 15, 2014, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-elasticsearch-results-are-not-consistant/20260 "2014-10-15T07:50:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Xinuo\_Chen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Xinuo_Chen)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2014, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-elasticsearch-results-are-not-consistant/20260/1 "2014-10-15T07:50:03Z")
I have some documents in elasticsearch.
first I do
```
{
"sort":[
"@timestamp"
],
"query":{
"in":{
"action_type":[
"start",
"end"
]
}
},
"size":0
}
```
I get
```
{
"took":58,
"timed_out":false,
"_shards":{
"total":5,
"successful":5,
"failed":0
},
"hits":{
"total":24435,
"max_score":0.0,
"hits":[
]
}
}
```
* * *
Then I want to get latest 100 document, I do
```
{
"sort":[
"@timestamp"
],
"query":{
"in":{
"action_type":[
"start",
"end"
]
}
},
"from":24335,
"size":100
}
```
it returns
```
{
"took":25,
"timed_out":false,
"_shards":{
"total":5,
"successful":5,
"failed":0
},
"hits":{
"total":18327,
"max_score":null,
"hits":[
]
}
}
```
Basically, the 2nd query indicates the `total` has been changed.
If I do the first query again, then still get the 1st result.
Why two queries are not returning same result?
by the way, if I use `filter`, it is the same
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-elasticsearch-results-are-not-consistant/20260/2 "2017-07-06T00:56:08Z")