Feature: Task Killer

Purpose

Provide a way to kill tasks in Cockpit, to test garbage collection and allow a person using Cockpit to manually free up resources on the client machine (the computer running the browser) as well as the server (in tasks that require heavy IO, etc.).

This feature is meant primarily as a debugging tool.

Audience

Developers

TBD

Proposed implementation

It's a common pattern to provide extended information on applications in the about box. Sometimes, this may include resources used. Andreas and I (Garrett) are looking to implement a task list where tasks can be killed inside the Cockpit about dialog.

Mockups

TBD