Correction, the RAM numbers are in GB, not MB :).

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On 08/10/2016 12:41 PM, Eric Voskuil wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback William.
>
> I have reports of a 33 minute full mainnet initial block download in
v3, with full height history index on a 32mb RAM machine, and we still
have a few optimizations left. Excited to see what we get at 128mb and
more cores.
>
> We're close to v3 release, so I would put any such policy in there. It
would consist of a deadline timer on the tx pool, timeout config
setting, per entry time stamp, and thread safe pool scan/update on
timeout, with timer reinitialization. Sound about right?
>
> No promises on timing. I'm planning to post notice of a v3 release
candidate within a week. I would tackle this after that. You could also
prob add this yourself in v2 without much difficulty.
>
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>
>> On Aug 10, 2016, at 11:27 AM, William Swanson <swansontec@???>
wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> Our libbitcoin infrastructure has been humming along quietly in the
>> background with no major hiccups for the past several months, so yay!
>> Things are pretty awesome, and the new block-download work that's been
>> going in looks even more amazing.
>>
>> One thing we've noticed through our customer support department is
>> that old unconfirmed transactions don't get dropped in a predictable
>> way. If the network is flooded with activity, unconfirmed transactions
>> may be dropped in a few hours, but it the network is slow, it may be
>> days. We've had a few cases where we needed to restart our libbitcoin
>> servers to clear some large transactions out of the mempool for our
>> customers. Is there any way to configure the mempool based on a
>> timeout, so any transaction over X hours old will be dropped?
>>
>> We can obviously implement this sort of logic client-side, but we
>> thought we'd check to see if the server already supported that first.
>>
>> Thanks for all the hard work,
>> -William
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