diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/shard/ShardGetService.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/shard/ShardGetService.java
index 5caedb5de0bf3..b717eb7b40a73 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/shard/ShardGetService.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/shard/ShardGetService.java
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.index.shard;
 
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
 import org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.bytes.BytesReference;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.document.DocumentField;
@@ -359,17 +361,24 @@ private static StoredFieldLoader buildStoredFieldLoader(String[] fields, FetchSo
      * This session must be created and used by a single thread.
      */
     public static final class MGetSession implements Releasable {
+        private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(MGetSession.class);
         private final ShardGetService shardGetService;
         private final MultiEngineGet multiEngineGet;
 
+        private final boolean enabled;
+
         public MGetSession(ShardGetService shardGetService) {
             this.shardGetService = shardGetService;
             this.multiEngineGet = shardGetService.indexShard.newMultiEngineGet();
+            this.enabled = shardGetService.indexSettings().getSettings().getAsInt("index.max_script_fields", 32) == 32;
+            logger.trace("MGetSession enabled=[{}].", enabled);
         }
 
         @Override
         public void close() {
-            multiEngineGet.close();
+            if (enabled) {
+                multiEngineGet.close();
+            }
         }
 
         public ShardId shardId() {
@@ -385,19 +394,25 @@ public GetResult get(
             FetchSourceContext fetchSourceContext,
             boolean forceSyntheticSource
         ) throws IOException {
-            return shardGetService.get(
-                id,
-                multiEngineGet::engineGet,
-                gFields,
-                realtime,
-                version,
-                versionType,
-                UNASSIGNED_SEQ_NO,
-                UNASSIGNED_PRIMARY_TERM,
-                fetchSourceContext,
-                forceSyntheticSource,
-                false
-            );
+            try {
+                return shardGetService.get(
+                    id,
+                    multiEngineGet::engineGet,
+                    gFields,
+                    realtime,
+                    version,
+                    versionType,
+                    UNASSIGNED_SEQ_NO,
+                    UNASSIGNED_PRIMARY_TERM,
+                    fetchSourceContext,
+                    forceSyntheticSource,
+                    false
+                );
+            } finally {
+                if (enabled == false) {
+                    close();
+                }
+            }
         }
     }
 }