iPhone Springboard using 300+ MB of RAM

[blueeye]

I'm having a weird problem where suddenly my iPhone (4, 6.0) now has no free memory, even once I have quit all the apps. Very few JB apps will now run (they crash when they try and do too much, probably for lack of RAM).

I'm down to <30MB of free RAM with no apps open. Springboard currently has RSIZE of 308M and VSIZE of 712M.

This started happening today, after which I had a major problem where my SB took up only a quarter of the screen, and the rest was flashing colours. I gather that this was a problem with A3Tweaks APEX tweak. Upgrading it fixed the problem, but SB is still taking up way too much RAM (weirdly, because I haven't installed anything new or upgraded since APEX came out a week ago).

Any idea what's going on? My iPhone has become almost unusable.

 

[BumpyFlatline]

My guess is Apex is your problem. Have you tried removing it along with any leftover plist files to see if the problem goes away?

 

[blueeye]

I actually think it may have been SideSettings, which is a tweak I installed at the same time as Apex. I've removed it and my SB is down to using 10-60MB of RAM. I'll give it some time and see if something changes.

 

[blueeye]

Ok well it was neither SideSettings nor Apex. After respring memory is normal, but after a time SB is using more than 300MB of RAM and I now just don't understand what's going on!