Anyone here runs heavy CPU work on the same box as SDR Console?

[DavidL55]

I'm setting up a new mini-PC to drive SDR Console (mostly using it with a Pluto for digital modes), and I'd like to leave some headroom for unrelated computing tasks. Right now I do these on a separate Linux box, but if I can consolidate that's one less machine to maintain.

The other workload is fairly modest, just a couple of python scripts pulling data from APIs and chewing through CSVs once a day, plus one job that runs a short pandas pipeline for a small tennis stats project I help a friend with. Nothing GPU-bound. So in raw CPU terms it shouldn't compete with SDR Console much.

What I'm not sure about is whether running anything else in parallel risks introducing audio/sample drops in Console, especially during scheduled cron windows. Has anyone here tried this kind of split, and is it generally fine, or is the recommendation still to keep the SDR machine 100% dedicated?