Comment 29 for bug 67129

Ok, the update in proposed seems to behave much better. I enabled -proposed as described here:
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed

Using the prior version, 0.3.7-1ubuntu11, I repeated the steps described in the initial bug description.
 total 32164K
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 total 57896K
After upgrade to 0.3.7-1ubuntu11.2 and killing the existing n-d process, I got:
 total 32164K
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 total 33916K

Much better!