diff --git a/cmd/syncthing/main.go b/cmd/syncthing/main.go
index 2d09fe5b3..44b31a2cb 100644
--- a/cmd/syncthing/main.go
+++ b/cmd/syncthing/main.go
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ func syncthingMain(runtimeOptions RuntimeOptions) {
 	// events. The LocalChangeDetected event might overwhelm the event
 	// receiver in some situations so we will not subscribe to it here.
 	apiSub := events.NewBufferedSubscription(events.Default.Subscribe(events.AllEvents&^events.LocalChangeDetected&^events.RemoteChangeDetected), 1000)
-	diskSub := events.NewBufferedSubscription(events.Default.Subscribe(events.LocalChangeDetected|events.RemoteChangeDetected), 1000)
+	diskSub := events.NewBufferedSubscription(events.Default.Subscribe(events.LocalChangeDetected|events.RemoteChangeDetected|events.Ping), 1000)
 
 	if len(os.Getenv("GOMAXPROCS")) == 0 {
 		runtime.GOMAXPROCS(runtime.NumCPU())