diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/CancellableBulkScorer.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/CancellableBulkScorer.java
index 7faa2ca002cc6..3630b57e29e42 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/CancellableBulkScorer.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/CancellableBulkScorer.java
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ final class CancellableBulkScorer extends BulkScorer {
 
     // we use the BooleanScorer window size as a base interval in order to make sure that we do not
     // slow down boolean queries
-    private static final int INITIAL_INTERVAL = 1 << 11;
+    private static final int INITIAL_INTERVAL = 1 << 12;
 
     // No point in having intervals that are larger than 1M
     private static final int MAX_INTERVAL = 1 << 20;