Background Process Best Practices

Keep the Process List Clean

• Kill processes when done - don't leave stale servers running
• Use background_process_cleanup periodically to remove exited processes
• Before launching, check background_process_list to avoid duplicates
• Use remove: true when killing to clean up in one step

Verify Startup

After launching, wait before reading output - servers need time to start:

1. Launch the process
2. Sleep at least 30 seconds (use bash sleep or just wait before next action)
3. background_process_read to confirm startup
4. If output is empty or incomplete, wait longer and re-read