KTorrent keeps pinging my completed torrent (HDD activity icon)

The 3GB torrent completed yesterday, my laptop’s HDD activity icon keeps blinking continuously since then. Torrent has 0 active connections, KTorrent’s gui at the bottom, reports 0 up/down. Pausing the torrent, doesn’t help, only Stopping or quiting stops the blinking.

~/.local/share/ktorrent folder is on the system nvme ssd. Download folder is on external usb3 hdd gpt exfat.

I’m assuming it keeps checking if the torrent is still there even though nobody’s actually downloading from me? Any way to make it less aggressive, maybe once every 10 minutes, or never until somebody actually connects?

Learned how to check hdd activity, found it was an actual ktorrent bug, fixed in 25.08. I was on 25.04 from Debian.