diff --git a/configs/milvus.yaml b/configs/milvus.yaml
index 2d6dd7bbbe09d..a464e676c6b6d 100644
--- a/configs/milvus.yaml
+++ b/configs/milvus.yaml
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ queryNode:
       taskQueueExpire: 60 # Control how long (many seconds) that queue retains since queue is empty
       enableCrossUserGrouping: false # Enable Cross user grouping when using user-task-polling policy. (Disable it if user's task can not merge each other)
       maxPendingTaskPerUser: 1024 # Max pending task per user in scheduler
-  levelZeroForwardPolicy: RemoteLoad # delegator level zero deletion forward policy, possible option["FilterByBF", "RemoteLoad"]
+  levelZeroForwardPolicy: FilterByBF # delegator level zero deletion forward policy, possible option["FilterByBF", "RemoteLoad"]
   streamingDeltaForwardPolicy: FilterByBF # delegator streaming deletion forward policy, possible option["FilterByBF", "Direct"]
   dataSync:
     flowGraph:
diff --git a/pkg/util/paramtable/component_param.go b/pkg/util/paramtable/component_param.go
index 79cb0eca8d541..3b1c4878954a1 100644
--- a/pkg/util/paramtable/component_param.go
+++ b/pkg/util/paramtable/component_param.go
@@ -3023,7 +3023,7 @@ Max read concurrency must greater than or equal to 1, and less than or equal to
 		Key:          "queryNode.levelZeroForwardPolicy",
 		Version:      "2.4.12",
 		Doc:          "delegator level zero deletion forward policy, possible option[\"FilterByBF\", \"RemoteLoad\"]",
-		DefaultValue: "RemoteLoad",
+		DefaultValue: "FilterByBF",
 		Export:       true,
 	}
 	p.LevelZeroForwardPolicy.Init(base.mgr)