I'd guess that one or more of these programs is not managing memory as it should, or that iOS has a problem reporting when no additionL memory is available. I've had similar issues with a few OS X applications .
Jerry Jankura
So many toys.... So little time...
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On Feb 2, 2011, at 1:57 PM, "David H. Bailey" <dhbailey52@comcast.net> wrote:
> One would hope so, but alas it's not the case. Some apps still use up
> resources while in the app tray. I can't speak for battery usage, but
> they do interfere with other apps. I use ForScore as a music reading
> app, and I have many musical pdf files loaded into it. If I exit out of
> that app by hitting the home button, quite often when I start up
> BlueFire Reader (in which I also have a lot of files) BlueFire will
> start up, show me the first page of what I'm reading and then abruptly
> quit. Quite often, but not always, truly shutting down all the apps in
> the app tray allows BlueFire to work just fine. Occasionally, though,
> I have to do the full power down while holding the Home button and
> rebooting in order to truly clear the memory for BlueFire to work properly.
