diff -ru zabbix-2.4.5/src/zabbix_server/escalator/escalator.c zabbix-2.4.5-patched/src/zabbix_server/escalator/escalator.c
--- zabbix-2.4.5/src/zabbix_server/escalator/escalator.c        2015-04-22 03:56:00.000000000 -0400
+++ zabbix-2.4.5-patched/src/zabbix_server/escalator/escalator.c        2015-06-10 20:37:41.862282218 -0400
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 }
 ZBX_USER_MSG;

+extern int     CONFIG_ESCALATOR_FORKS;
 extern unsigned char   process_type, daemon_type;
 extern int             server_num, process_num;

@@ -1382,7 +1383,7 @@
        zabbix_log(LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG, "End of %s()", __function_name);
 }

-static int     process_escalations(int now, int *nextcheck)
+static int     process_escalations(int now, int *nextcheck, int procnum, int proccount)
 {
        const char              *__function_name = "process_escalations";
        DB_RESULT               result;
@@ -1401,7 +1402,8 @@
        result = DBselect(
                        "select escalationid,actionid,triggerid,eventid,r_eventid,nextcheck,esc_step,status,itemid"
                        " from escalations"
-                       " order by actionid,triggerid,itemid,escalationid");
+                       " where MOD(escalationid,%d)=%d"
+                       " order by actionid,triggerid,itemid,escalationid", proccount, procnum - 1);

        *nextcheck = now + CONFIG_ESCALATOR_FREQUENCY;
        memset(&escalation, 0, sizeof(escalation));
@@ -1604,12 +1606,12 @@
        {
                if (0 != sleeptime)
                {
-                       zbx_setproctitle("%s [processed %d escalations in " ZBX_FS_DBL " sec, processing escalations]",
+                       zbx_setproctitle("%s #%d [processed %d escalations in " ZBX_FS_DBL " sec, processing escalations]",
                                        get_process_type_string(process_type), old_escalations_count, old_total_sec);
                }

                sec = zbx_time();
-               escalations_count += process_escalations(time(NULL), &nextcheck);
+               escalations_count += process_escalations(time(NULL), &nextcheck, process_num, CONFIG_ESCALATOR_FORKS);
                total_sec += zbx_time() - sec;

                sleeptime = calculate_sleeptime(nextcheck, CONFIG_ESCALATOR_FREQUENCY);
@@ -1620,14 +1622,14 @@
                {
                        if (0 == sleeptime)
                        {
-                               zbx_setproctitle("%s [processed %d escalations in " ZBX_FS_DBL
+                               zbx_setproctitle("%s #%d [processed %d escalations in " ZBX_FS_DBL
                                                " sec, processing escalations]", get_process_type_string(process_type),
-                                               escalations_count, total_sec);
+                                               process_num, escalations_count, total_sec);
                        }
                        else
                        {
-                               zbx_setproctitle("%s [processed %d escalations in " ZBX_FS_DBL " sec, idle %d sec]",
-                                               get_process_type_string(process_type), escalations_count, total_sec,
+                               zbx_setproctitle("%s #%d [processed %d escalations in " ZBX_FS_DBL " sec, idle %d sec]",
+                                               get_process_type_string(process_type), process_num, escalations_count, total_sec,
                                                sleeptime);

                                old_escalations_count = escalations_count;
diff -ru zabbix-2.4.5/src/zabbix_server/server.c zabbix-2.4.5-patched/src/zabbix_server/server.c
--- zabbix-2.4.5/src/zabbix_server/server.c     2015-04-22 03:56:00.000000000 -0400
+++ zabbix-2.4.5-patched/src/zabbix_server/server.c     2015-06-10 20:37:46.549336241 -0400
@@ -455,6 +455,8 @@
                        PARM_OPT,       0,                      1000},
                {"StartJavaPollers",            &CONFIG_JAVAPOLLER_FORKS,               TYPE_INT,
                        PARM_OPT,       0,                      1000},
+               {"StartEscalators",             &CONFIG_ESCALATOR_FORKS,                        TYPE_INT,
+                       PARM_OPT,       1,                      1000},
                {"JavaGateway",                 &CONFIG_JAVA_GATEWAY,                   TYPE_STRING,
                        PARM_OPT,       0,                      0},
                {"JavaGatewayPort",             &CONFIG_JAVA_GATEWAY_PORT,              TYPE_INT,