diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/nodestat.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/nodestat.pm
index c1fbb33e0..e5ddccb1f 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/nodestat.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/nodestat.pm
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ sub getstat {
 sub preprocess_request
 {
     my $req = shift;
+    return [$req]; #For now, do not distribute, nodestat seems to lose accuracy and slow down distributed
     my $cb  = shift;
     my %sn;
     if ($req->{_xcatdest}) { return [$req]; }    #exit if preprocessed