Can a ThreadedServer do background processing while waiting for connections?

[Thomas James]

I would like the server to manage a bunch of on-going serial port streams while waiting for connections requesting  intermittent access to those streams. The ThreadedServer.start() method blocks so nothing else can happen after that is called. There does not seem to be any method to allow the server to do background processing while waiting for service connections. I've tried wrapping the ThreadedServer in a threading.Thread and that gives me control of my background processing. What should I be doing or am I trying to use Rpyc for something it is not meant to do?