What to check to see if server has enough free resources?

Question

The windows service I am writing will need to run some processor intensive operations once in a while (sound encoding wav -> mp3) on a machine that takes part in real time voice communication (so I cannot just run them any-time).

What would you check (what counters maybe) before running such operation?

Can you point me to any good articles?

Answer 1

Let the OS do the scheduling for you, as it was designed.

Assign the idle priority to your process. That's it!

Process.GetCurrentProcess().PriorityClass = ProcessPriorityClass.Idle;