IPad Air Not Calculating Available Storage Correctly / Restore Problem?

Just purchased a 16gb ipad air, restored apps and data from a backed up/no longer functioning ipad 2.  After all apps loaded settings is saying I have 0 of the 12.8 GB available. It also appears that the job finished but the software update page indicates restore is still in progress.     After adding up all the apps and data from the list there is <10gb. 
Could the restore action be using up allocated space?  
How can I tell what process is running and whether that is consuming the memory?   And, can I kill/cancel it (if it's still the restore)?
What makes me more suspicious is that after I delete a handful of apps the available storage increases "temporarily", then reverts back to 0 available. 
I really do not want to reset all apps and data settings and reload manually since I have a few key apps from the old ipad 2 that I need to retain.  An suggestions or are there any known problems?
Thanks.

I think I figured it out.  I went through my iPhone and turned off a lot of the apps that were slotted to backup and it appears to done the trick as the phone is backing up to iCloud.
The language needs to be broken down where it makes more sense of what's happening behind the scenes during these backups as I think it can be easily miscontrued that it's the data the various specific apps are using which is the issue at hand and not them apps themselves is what's causing the increase in size; some people may think that if they turn these apps off, they are deleting the apps from their devices so they leave them all switched on which ends up bumping up the size and ultimately eating up storage space.
I admit to not really paying attention to what the explanation was saying when I initially got the error message which made me initially post this.  Now that I'm rationally thinking, I can see the problem of the disappearing space and am off to turn off a handful of apps on the Air to reduce the storage allotment even more

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