How to find the processor queue length in linux

Question

Trying to determine the Processor Queue Length (the number of processes that ready to run but currently aren\'t) on a linux machine. There is a WMI call in Windows for this metr

Answer 1

sar -q will report queue length, task list length and three load averages.

Example:

matli@tornado:~$ sar -q 1 0
Linux 2.6.27-9-generic (tornado)    01/13/2009  _i686_

11:38:32 PM   runq-sz  plist-sz   ldavg-1   ldavg-5  ldavg-15
11:38:33 PM         0       305      1.26      0.95      0.54
11:38:34 PM         4       305      1.26      0.95      0.54
11:38:35 PM         1       306      1.26      0.95      0.54
11:38:36 PM         1       306      1.26      0.95      0.54
^C