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It started around 1.77. Each time I start downloading a big file (1.4 GB or such), T freezes for several seconds, jobs can not be managed and it is impossible to see the stats updated. I suppose that it freezes while reserving the disk space (padding the data). It never happened this way before and ...

I have another question. Do the file priority settings affect seeding? I need that behavior. There are several Linux distros in my queue, and I want them to seed as much as requested no matter the rest.