diff --git a/doc/management.txt b/doc/management.txt
index 99b3e5936..e71849a52 100644
--- a/doc/management.txt
+++ b/doc/management.txt
@@ -1788,7 +1788,9 @@ set maxconn global <maxconn>
 set profiling { tasks } { auto | on | off }
   Enables or disables CPU profiling for the indicated subsystem. This is
   equivalent to setting or clearing the "profiling" settings in the "global"
-  section of the configuration file. Please also see "show profiling".
+  section of the configuration file. Please also see "show profiling". Note
+  that manually setting the tasks profiling to "on" automatically resets the
+  scheduler statistics, thus allows to check activity over a given interval.
 
 set rate-limit connections global <value>
   Change the process-wide connection rate limit, which is set by the global
diff --git a/src/activity.c b/src/activity.c
index e0e6693b7..ffad3701d 100644
--- a/src/activity.c
+++ b/src/activity.c
@@ -72,8 +72,17 @@ static int cli_parse_set_profiling(char **args, char *payload, struct appctx *ap
 
 	if (strcmp(args[3], "on") == 0) {
 		unsigned int old = profiling;
+		int i;
+
 		while (!_HA_ATOMIC_CAS(&profiling, &old, (old & ~HA_PROF_TASKS_MASK) | HA_PROF_TASKS_ON))
 			;
+		/* also flush current profiling stats */
+		for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
+			HA_ATOMIC_STORE(&sched_activity[i].calls, 0);
+			HA_ATOMIC_STORE(&sched_activity[i].cpu_time, 0);
+			HA_ATOMIC_STORE(&sched_activity[i].lat_time, 0);
+			HA_ATOMIC_STORE(&sched_activity[i].func, NULL);
+		}
 	}
 	else if (strcmp(args[3], "auto") == 0) {
 		unsigned int old = profiling;