You might try turning off "Auto Manage" if it is enabled on the recently downloaded torrent. Or maybe on all your torrents. And see if that makes a difference? (This is almost a blind shot in the dark, so it is unlikely to help).

I think I may be having problems understanding "Auto Managed". I have read the FAQ response here: http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/Faq#WhatdoesAutoManageddo And I thought I understood, but now that I read it more closely, I think I still don't understand what the use case is for this fea...

Do you happen to have torrents in your queue set as "Auto Managed"? If so, then you might try disabling the auto-managed feature. In some cases, on some installs, it seems not to work correctly. See this thread for a similar issue: 15 active slots: http://forum.deluge-torrent.org/viewtopic...

Bumping this topic back up to the top because I am using the Windows version of Deluge version 1.3.11 and I experienced the same problem: only a few torrents would remain in a "Seeding" state, and the rest would all be stuck as "Queued", even though they had finished downloading ...