Johnach,
The top command will give you the info you are looking for, here is an example view.
My dual cpu Linux box.
0:34am up 30 days, 15:19, 6 users, load average: 0.03, 0.05, 0.01
105 processes: 104 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 0.42% user, 1.29% system, 0.0%...