I just looked into this from the perspective of sposnoring a SRU for maverick. I am not able to see a isolated patch for the problem. I unsubscribe ubuntu-sponsors for now. If the fix from the Changes (below) can be isolated, please resubscribe ubuntu-sponsors.
+0.15.5 release + + * support DHT extension to report external IPs + * fixed rare crash in http_connection's error handling + * avoid connecting to peers listening on ports < 1024 + * optimized piece picking to not cause busy loops in some end-game modes + * fixed python bindings for tcp::endpoint + * fixed edge case of pad file support + * limit number of torrents tracked by DHT + * fixed bug when allow_multiple_connections_per_ip was enabled + * potential WOW64 fix for unbuffered I/O (windows) + * expose set_alert_queue_size_limit to python binding + * support dht nodes in magnet links + * support 100 Continue HTTP responses + * changed default choker behavior to use 8 unchoke slots (instead of bei ng rate based) + * fixed error reporting issue in disk I/O thread + * fixed file allocation issues on linux + * fixed filename encoding and decoding issue on platforms using iconv + * reports redundant downloads to tracker, fixed downloaded calculation t o + be more stable when not including redundant. Improved redundant data a ccounting + to be more accurate + * fixed bugs in http seed connection and added unit test for it + * fixed error reporting when fallocate fails + * deprecate support for separate proxies for separate kinds of connectio ns -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668615 Title: Downloads slow, stop, get stuck on "starting up" -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
