Uncovering Multiple Threads

The best way to determine how many processes produced the threads in the queue is to chart the processor time used by each process.

The following figure is a histogram of Processor: % Processor Time for all processes running when the queue in the previous graph was measured:

Despite the large queue, this chart makes it evident that a single process, represented by the tall, white bar, is using much more than its share of the processor—nearly 80% on average. If multiple processes were at work, no single bar would be so tall and there would be multiple bars at nearly the same height.