Looks like there is an update to Winterboard that just came put that is supposed to fix this issue. View attachment 400172
I hope so
Looks like there is an update to Winterboard that just came put that is supposed to fix this issue. View attachment 400172
Avoid The Dreaded "vnode" Leak
Some users have been reporting that, recently, while using WinterBoard, it is hard to keep many iOS applications running in the background: after you run more than a few, they are killed.
This issue did not correlate with new versions of WinterBoard (downgrading did not help), but it did clear itself up if you uninstalled WinterBoard. It did not require any themes to be active.
I have managed to track this down to leaking a key resource, something called a "vnode", of which Apple, by default, only allocates 1250; this bug is a complex multi-component overlap.
In this case, when using iOS 6.1 (maybe also 6.0, but maybe not), with a 0.9.400x version of Substrate, and virtually any version of WinterBoard, you will probably encounter this issue.
After spending a couple days looking into this reported issue with some custom vnode debugging tools I wrote (which required getting some help from planetbeing, due to kASLR), I have determined WinterBoard is the correct place to fix this issue, and have done so there in 0.9.3911.
Erm... Am I the only one which after updating to the new winterboard, my apps such as Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade still crashes upon opening... =(
My winterboard had been perfect up until today (have the latest update). For some reason I keep losing parts of my theme. Hard reboots, deselecting/reselecting the theme does nothing to help. Items that are in my theme aren't being applied, such as my 2x2 folder icon as a quick example, even though nothing in my theme folder has changed, I can see it there still. Wish I never updated.
There are a few games that seem to consistently crash when Winterboard is installed - Marvel War of Heroes and Hellfire are a couple of others that I've seen reported. This isn't related to the vnode bug; it's some other kind of problem, and saurik will look into this when he can.
This isn't likely to be caused by this Winterboard update; it just fixed the vnode issue and didn't change other things. Did you recently upgrade ayecon? Some people ran into issues with that upgrade; reinstalling ayecon should fix that problem.
There are a few games that seem to consistently crash when Winterboard is installed - Marvel War of Heroes and Hellfire are a couple of others that I've seen reported. This isn't related to the vnode bug; it's some other kind of problem, and saurik will look into this when he can.
This isn't likely to be caused by this Winterboard update; it just fixed the vnode issue and didn't change other things. Did you recently upgrade ayecon? Some people ran into issues with that upgrade; reinstalling ayecon should fix that problem.
Since the update, I haven't had a single app crash, nor any early app closures in the multitasking department. At least for me, the latest update has fixed all my issues.