diff --git a/boot.php b/boot.php
index 3bbbef3c96..3116bb94b9 100644
--- a/boot.php
+++ b/boot.php
@@ -1449,7 +1449,25 @@ if(! function_exists('proc_run')) {
 						dbesc(datetime_convert()),
 						intval(0));
 
-				return;
+				// Should we quit and wait for the poller to be called as a cronjob?
+				if (get_config("system", "worker_dont_fork"))
+					return;
+
+				// Checking number of workers
+				$workers = q("SELECT COUNT(*) AS `workers` FROM `workerqueue` WHERE `executed` != '0000-00-00 00:00:00'");
+
+				// Get number of allowed number of worker threads
+				$queues = intval(get_config("system", "worker_queues"));
+
+				if ($queues == 0)
+					$queues = 4;
+
+				// If there are already enough workers running, don't fork another one
+				if ($workers[0]["workers"] >= $queues)
+					return;
+
+				// Now call the poller to execute the jobs that we just added to the queue
+				$args = array("php", "include/poller.php", "no_cron");
 			}
 
 			$args[0] = ((x($a->config,'php_path')) && (strlen($a->config['php_path'])) ? $a->config['php_path'] : 'php');
diff --git a/include/poller.php b/include/poller.php
index 74d23a5482..bdf6ba84e9 100644
--- a/include/poller.php
+++ b/include/poller.php
@@ -26,15 +26,20 @@ function poller_run(&$argv, &$argc){
 		unset($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_data);
 	};
 
-	// Run the cron job that calls all other jobs
-	proc_run("php","include/cron.php");
+	if(($argc <= 1) OR ($argv[1] != "no_cron")) {
+		// Run the cron job that calls all other jobs
+		proc_run("php","include/cron.php");
 
-	// Cleaning killed processes
-	$r = q("SELECT DISTINCT(`pid`) FROM `workerqueue` WHERE `executed` != '0000-00-00 00:00:00'");
-	foreach($r AS $pid)
-		if (!posix_kill($pid["pid"], 0))
-			q("UPDATE `workerqueue` SET `executed` = '0000-00-00 00:00:00', `pid` = 0 WHERE `pid` = %d",
-				intval($pid["pid"]));
+		// Cleaning dead processes
+		$r = q("SELECT DISTINCT(`pid`) FROM `workerqueue` WHERE `executed` != '0000-00-00 00:00:00'");
+		foreach($r AS $pid)
+			if (!posix_kill($pid["pid"], 0))
+				q("UPDATE `workerqueue` SET `executed` = '0000-00-00 00:00:00', `pid` = 0 WHERE `pid` = %d",
+					intval($pid["pid"]));
+
+	} else
+		// Sleep two seconds before checking for running processes to avoid having too many workers
+		sleep(2);
 
 	// Checking number of workers
 	$workers = q("SELECT COUNT(*) AS `workers` FROM `workerqueue` WHERE `executed` != '0000-00-00 00:00:00'");