diff --git a/htroot/api/status_p.java b/htroot/api/status_p.java
index 625fa7066..0ff486e44 100644
--- a/htroot/api/status_p.java
+++ b/htroot/api/status_p.java
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ public class status_p {
         prop.put("crawlProfiles_count", count);
         prop.put("crawlProfiles", count == 0 ? 0 : 1);
         
+        prop.put("postprocessingRunning", Switchboard.postprocessingRunning ? 1 : 0);
+        
         // return rewrite properties
         return prop;
     }
diff --git a/htroot/api/status_p.xml b/htroot/api/status_p.xml
index acc550ccb..b4d9ef76a 100644
--- a/htroot/api/status_p.xml
+++ b/htroot/api/status_p.xml
@@ -65,4 +65,8 @@
   </crawls>
 #(/crawlProfiles)#
   
+  <postprocessing>
+    <status>#(postprocessingRunning)#idle::busy#(/postprocessingRunning)#</status>
+  </postprocessing>
+  
 </status>
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java b/source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java
index 4d7d76e60..9af83a48d 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java
@@ -2011,6 +2011,8 @@ public final class Switchboard extends serverSwitch {
         return c;
     }
 
+    public static boolean postprocessingRunning = false;
+    
     public boolean cleanupJob() {
         
         try {
@@ -2281,9 +2283,11 @@ public final class Switchboard extends serverSwitch {
             // if no crawl is running and processing is activated:
             // execute the (post-) processing steps for all entries that have a process tag assigned
             if (this.crawlQueues.coreCrawlJobSize() == 0) {
-                if (this.crawlQueues.noticeURL.isEmpty()) this.crawlQueues.noticeURL.clear(); // flushes more caches                
+                if (this.crawlQueues.noticeURL.isEmpty()) this.crawlQueues.noticeURL.clear(); // flushes more caches 
+                postprocessingRunning = true;
                 index.fulltext().getDefaultConfiguration().postprocessing(index);
                 index.fulltext().getWebgraphConfiguration().postprocessing(index);
+                postprocessingRunning = false;
             }
             
             return true;