diff --git a/include/poller.php b/include/poller.php
index ae249ffe46..839e5c11bb 100644
--- a/include/poller.php
+++ b/include/poller.php
@@ -417,11 +417,9 @@ function poller_too_much_workers() {
 
 	$maxqueues = $queues;
 
-	$active = poller_active_workers();
-
 	// Decrease the number of workers at higher load
 	$load = current_load();
-	if($load) {
+	if ($load) {
 		$maxsysload = intval(Config::get("system", "maxloadavg", 50));
 
 		$maxworkers = $queues;
@@ -431,6 +429,33 @@ function poller_too_much_workers() {
 		$slope = $maxworkers / pow($maxsysload, $exponent);
 		$queues = ceil($slope * pow(max(0, $maxsysload - $load), $exponent));
 
+		$active = 0;
+
+		// Create a list of queue entries grouped by their priority
+		$listitem = array();
+
+		// Adding all processes with no workerqueue entry
+		$processes = dba::p("SELECT COUNT(*) AS `running` FROM `process` WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT id FROM `workerqueue` WHERE `workerqueue`.`pid` = `process`.`pid`)");
+		if ($process = dba::fetch($processes)) {
+			$listitem[0] = "0:".$process["running"];
+			$active += $process["running"];
+		}
+		dba::close($processes);
+
+		// Now adding all processes with workerqueue entries
+		$entries = dba::p("SELECT COUNT(*) AS `entries`, `priority` FROM `workerqueue` GROUP BY `priority`");
+		while ($entry = dba::fetch($entries)) {
+			$processes = dba::p("SELECT COUNT(*) AS `running` FROM `process` LEFT JOIN `workerqueue` ON `workerqueue`.`pid` = `process`.`pid` WHERE `priority` = ?", $entry["priority"]);
+			if ($process = dba::fetch($processes)) {
+				$listitem[$entry["priority"]] = $entry["priority"].":".$process["running"]."/".$entry["entries"];
+				$active += $process["running"];
+			}
+			dba::close($processes);
+		}
+		dba::close($entries);
+
+		$processlist = implode(', ', $listitem);
+
 		$s = q("SELECT COUNT(*) AS `total` FROM `workerqueue` WHERE `executed` <= '%s'", dbesc(NULL_DATE));
 		$entries = $s[0]["total"];
 
@@ -448,27 +473,6 @@ function poller_too_much_workers() {
 			}
 		}
 
-		// Create a list of queue entries grouped by their priority
-		$running = array(PRIORITY_CRITICAL => 0,
-				PRIORITY_HIGH => 0,
-				PRIORITY_MEDIUM => 0,
-				PRIORITY_LOW => 0,
-				PRIORITY_NEGLIGIBLE => 0);
-
-		$r = q("SELECT COUNT(*) AS `running`, `priority` FROM `process` INNER JOIN `workerqueue` ON `workerqueue`.`pid` = `process`.`pid` GROUP BY `priority`");
-		if (dbm::is_result($r))
-			foreach ($r AS $process)
-				$running[$process["priority"]] = $process["running"];
-
-		$processlist = "";
-		$r = q("SELECT COUNT(*) AS `entries`, `priority` FROM `workerqueue` GROUP BY `priority`");
-		if (dbm::is_result($r))
-			foreach ($r as $entry) {
-				if ($processlist != "")
-					$processlist .= ", ";
-				$processlist .= $entry["priority"].":".$running[$entry["priority"]]."/".$entry["entries"];
-			}
-
 		logger("Load: ".$load."/".$maxsysload." - processes: ".$active."/".$entries." (".$processlist.") - maximum: ".$queues."/".$maxqueues, LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
 		// Are there fewer workers running as possible? Then fork a new one.
@@ -478,6 +482,8 @@ function poller_too_much_workers() {
 			$a = get_app();
 			$a->proc_run($args);
 		}
+	} else {
+		$active = poller_active_workers();
 	}
 
 	return($active >= $queues);
diff --git a/src/Network/Probe.php b/src/Network/Probe.php
index 28075989df..94fa2733be 100644
--- a/src/Network/Probe.php
+++ b/src/Network/Probe.php
@@ -58,6 +58,28 @@ class Probe {
 		return $newdata;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @brief Check if the hostname belongs to the own server
+	 *
+	 * @param string $host The hostname that is to be checked
+	 *
+	 * @return bool Does the testes hostname belongs to the own server?
+	 */
+	private function ownHost($host) {
+		$own_host = get_app()->get_hostname();
+
+		$parts = parse_url($host);
+
+		if (!isset($parts['scheme'])) {
+			$parts = parse_url('http://'.$host);
+		}
+
+		if (!isset($parts['host'])) {
+			return false;
+		}
+		return $parts['host'] == $own_host;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * @brief Probes for XRD data
 	 *
@@ -82,7 +104,7 @@ class Probe {
 		logger("Probing for ".$host, LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
 		$ret = z_fetch_url($ssl_url, false, $redirects, array('timeout' => $xrd_timeout, 'accept_content' => 'application/xrd+xml'));
-		if ($ret['errno'] == CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT) {
+		if (($ret['errno'] == CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT) AND !self::ownHost($ssl_url)) {
 			logger("Probing timeout for ".$ssl_url, LOGGER_DEBUG);
 			return false;
 		}