diff --git a/bin/linspector b/bin/linspector
index 092dfb5..6f4f5a5 100755
--- a/bin/linspector
+++ b/bin/linspector
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ from linspector.core.monitors import Monitors
 
 # i currently only increase the 3rd number because the goal is that 0.19 will become the first
 # stable version.
-__version__ = '0.19.21.dev1'
+__version__ = '0.19.22.dev1'
 __author__ = 'Johannes Findeisen <you@hanez.org>'
 
 logger = logging.getLogger('linspector')
diff --git a/etc/linspector.conf b/etc/linspector.conf
index 09e0001..7ac01da 100644
--- a/etc/linspector.conf
+++ b/etc/linspector.conf
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ run_mode = cron
 members = superadmin@example.com,developers@example.com
 ; scheduler configuration
 start_scheduler = true
+; the mode the scheduler should run. options are, process or thread. default is the thread mode. process mode will run
+; multiple processes, thread mode will run only one process with multiple threads. maybe this can be combined to run
+; multiple processes with multiple threads... dont know this actually but reading the APScheduler documentation will
+; explain this.... :) default is "thread" but Linspector will only run on one CPU core then. default threads are 1024
+; but this can be set much higher here.
+scheduler_mode = process
 max_threads = 3500
 ; i recommend to set this to your number of cpu cores available when running on a dedicated linspector host. but if the
 ; system is running other services you should lower this value when you have too high cpu load.
diff --git a/linspector/core/configuration.py b/linspector/core/configuration.py
index becfb9e..1d57447 100644
--- a/linspector/core/configuration.py
+++ b/linspector/core/configuration.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class Configuration:
                 self.__configuration.read(configuration_path + '/linspector.conf', 'utf-8')
             except Exception as err:
                 raise Exception('something went wrong reading the configuration file '
-                                'linspector.ini in the configuration root path! ({0})'.format(err))
+                                'linspector.conf in the configuration root path! ({0})'.format(err))
         else:
             raise FileNotFoundError("configuration file linspector.ini not found in configuration "
                                     "root path!")
diff --git a/linspector/core/linspector.py b/linspector/core/linspector.py
index f482936..c3c0d04 100644
--- a/linspector/core/linspector.py
+++ b/linspector/core/linspector.py
@@ -45,14 +45,25 @@ class Linspector:
         jobstores = {
             'memory': MemoryJobStore()
         }
-        executors = {
-            'default': ThreadPoolExecutor(int(configuration.get_option('linspector',
-                                                                       'max_threads'))),
-            #'default': ProcessPoolExecutor(int(configuration.get_option('linspector',
-            #                                                            'max_processes')))
-        }
+        if configuration.get_option('linspector', 'max_threads') and not \
+                configuration.get_option('linspector', 'scheduler_mode') == 'process':
+            executors = {
+                'default': ThreadPoolExecutor(int(configuration.get_option('linspector',
+                                                                           'max_threads')))
+            }
+        else:
+            executors = {
+                'default': ThreadPoolExecutor(1024)
+            }
+        if configuration.get_option('linspector', 'scheduler_mode'):
+            if configuration.get_option('linspector', 'scheduler_mode') == 'process':
+                executors = {
+                    'default': ProcessPoolExecutor(int(configuration.get_option('linspector',
+                                                                                'max_processes')))
+                }
         job_defaults = {
-            'max_instances': 10000
+            # every scheduler job (monitor) must only exist once.
+            'max_instances': 1
         }
         self.__scheduler['linspector'] = BackgroundScheduler(jobstores=jobstores,
                                                              executors=executors,