Excessively Waited (Peers Tab)

[NeverThere220]

In the Help file for the Peers tab, it explains that "Waited" displays the number of seconds since the last request was made to this peer.

I am linking to a screenshot showing that for one particular peer, uTorrent has waited for 24,285 seconds, i.e., for well over 6 hours.

This seems excessive. For 6 hours this peer has apparently blocked a perfectly usable download slot, for absolutely no reason.

Shouldn't uTorrent drop the peer at some point, and allow another useful one to occupy the slot?

Using uTorrent 1.8 (build 11813) on Win XP Pro.

[DreadWingKnight]

Using uTorrent 1.8 (build 11813)

Not current stable build.

[NeverThere220]

Not current stable build.

That doesn't seem to address the issue. Version 1.8 is the just-prior-stable-release. And reading the "readme" file for the most current stable release (at http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=47309 ), there is absolutely no mention of this as an issue that was addressed/resolved, when building and releasing the current version.

But perhaps you know more about issues that were resolved in the current release, but were not mentioned in the readme. Was excessive waiting addressed in the current release?

[DreadWingKnight]

--- 2008-10-06: Version 1.8.1 (build 12616)

- Fix: disconnect inactive peers sometimes not taking effect

[NeverThere220]

Now that's an answer to be proud of. It hits dead center on the issue I am encountering, with an economy of words.

I'm upgrading now. Thanks again.

[Firon]

But inactive peers will still not be disconnected if you haven't reached the connection limit (either per torrent or global).