It's basically a big recent list for apps, running or not.
Did not know that. Seems less than useful.
Well, I think it's likely ones that have been suspended. They may or may not be taking cycles (they could be totally unloaded and swapped out, or they could be getting no time on the CPU because they are suspended, and will get swapped out when there's memory pressure).
When you said you saw a list of apps running, did you see any of them using any CPU?
Me? I was going strictly by the total number of items in the task switcher. Don't really know how to tell what is or isn't consuming critical resources.
Didn't count but there were enough that I thought rebooting would be quicker than killing them one by one. I was truly surprised to see any apps in the task switcher after the power off restart.
As I mentioned, videos that were unplayable before could now be played.
Sorry, I thought you were running top or something. After a hard reboot, my guess is that nothing is RUNNING (apart from the things which have hooks to start up with the system, like maybe VoIP stuff), but that doesn't mean they are not listed as "recent apps" with saved state that you can jump right into.
I guess your issue may just have been due to a bug, or not enough wired memory and something not freeing it right. I would love to know - from the UI - which apps are actually in ram and getting any cycles ever... but I suspect that's too much complexity for the UI guys to live with...
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