Average system load metrics on Windows

[techtonik]

Is there a way to query some kind of load average for Windows?
nicolargo/glances#344

[giampaolo]

Interesting, I will look into this. And no, right now this is not exposed.

[techtonik]

Yea, I know. I stumbled upon this while trying to port https://github.com/Jahaja/psdash to Windows.

[giampaolo]

Some other references:

• https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14297
• https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc940375.aspx

@wj32 Do you know how to retrieve the processor queue length on Windows (possibly without using WMI)?

[giampaolo]

This is implemented in a fork of sigar by using WMI:
https://github.com/boundary/sigar/blob/86613fe75578f8e09453866bc11741cc6dca6a60/src/os/win32/win32_sigar.c#L1084
Other ref:
hyperic/sigar#72 (comment)

[giampaolo]

http://serverfault.com/a/328406

[giampaolo]

Recent related BPO tickets:
https://bugs.python.org/issue34060
https://bugs.python.org/issue30263#msg296311