diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 72f1f1ee460..b62fbf2c153 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Changelog for NeoFS Node
 - Neo RPC client failure when the first endpoint is unavailable even if there are more endpoints to try (#2703)
 - Incorrect address mapping of the Alphabet contracts in NNS produced by deployment procedure (#2713)
 - IR compares and logs public keys difference, not hash of keys difference at SN verification check (#2711)
+- Object search server no longer wastes system resources sending empty intermediate messages to the stream (#2722)
 
 ### Changed
 - Created files are not group writable (#2589)
diff --git a/pkg/services/object/search/exec.go b/pkg/services/object/search/exec.go
index 46dcb3bb0a7..d572f68ab07 100644
--- a/pkg/services/object/search/exec.go
+++ b/pkg/services/object/search/exec.go
@@ -117,7 +117,11 @@ func (exec *execCtx) generateTraverser(cnr cid.ID) (*placement.Traverser, bool)
 }
 
 func (exec *execCtx) writeIDList(ids []oid.ID) {
-	err := exec.prm.writer.WriteIDs(ids)
+	var err error
+
+	if len(ids) > 0 {
+		err = exec.prm.writer.WriteIDs(ids)
+	}
 
 	switch {
 	default: