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The uptime command lists load average for the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes:
$ uptime
05:49:47 up 8:40, 1 user, load average: 3.38, 2.16, 1.87
The load needs to be divided by number of CPUs. For example my system is a quad core (4 CPUs) Hyper threading (2 threads per CPU) so I need to divide by 8. The 5 minute load average of 2.16 is really .27 or about 27%.