Ok... I run spy (sampling for 2 seconds) just before initializing the sequencer, to see what's going on, and it starts pretty much normal, mostly idle, as I would expect:
PID PRI STATE %CPU %STK NAME
09010001 255 READY 97.0 0 IDLE
0a010014 136 Wmutex 1.9 7 scan1
0a01001e 148 READY 0.4 19 timerQueue
0a010021 148 Wmutex 0.1 14 CAC-event
0a010004 10 Wevnt 0.1 21 ntwk
0a010018 132 Wmutex 0.0 20 scan0.05
0a010022 108 READY 0.0 20 SPY
0a010017 133 Wmutex 0.0 13 scan0.1
0a010010 129 Wmutex 0.0 18 scanOnce
0a010016 134 Wmutex 0.0 21 scan0.2
0a01001a 182 DELAY 0.0 17 CAS-beacon
0a010020 189 Wevnt 0.0 20 CAC-repeater
0a010015 135 Wmutex 0.0 16 scan0.5
0a01001b 183 Wevnt 0.0 20 CAS-UDP
0a01000e 149 Wmutex 0.0 16 dbCaLink
0a010013 137 Wmutex 0.0 1 scan2
0a01001f 147 Wevnt 0.0 21 CAC-UDP
0a01001d 189 Wmutex 0.0 23 ipToAsciiProxy
0a01001c 189 DELAY 0.0 16 bcYearMonitor
0a010019 181 Wevnt 0.0 20 CAS-TCP
0a010012 138 Wmutex 0.0 23 scan5
0a010011 139 Wmutex 0.0 23 scan10
0a01000f 141 Wmutex 0.0 23 timerQueue
0a01000d 128 Wmutex 0.0 23 cbHigh
0a01000c 135 Wmutex 0.0 23 cbMedium
0a01000b 140 Wmutex 0.0 23 cbLow
0a01000a 129 Wmutex 0.0 23 timerQueue
0a010009 189 Wmutex 0.0 23 taskwd
0a010008 109 Wmutex 0.0 23 ClockTimeSync
0a010007 109 Wmutex 0.0 22 NTPTimeSync
0a010006 10 Wevnt 0.0 18 RPCd
0a010005 10 Wevnt 0.0 21 MVEd
0a010002 100 Wmsg 0.0 0 ImsgDaemon
0a010003 189 Wmutex 0.0 22 errlog
0a010001 108 Wmutex 0.0 0 _main_
PID PRI STATE %CPU %STK NAME
0a01000f 141 READY 63.1 20 timerQueue
09010001 255 READY 32.7 0 IDLE
0a010022 108 READY 1.9 19 SPY
Press <return> to terminate.
PID PRI STATE %CPU %STK NAME
0a01000f 141 READY 95.4 20 timerQueue
0a010014 136 Wmutex 2.2 7 scan1
0a010022 108 READY 1.9 19 SPY