{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1fx98zxt3lzspjs5f4msr0fxysx5euucm29ghysryju7vpc9j0jzqtcl2d8","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1fx98zxt3lzspjs5f4msr0fxysx5euucm29ghysryju7vpc9j0jzqtcl2d8","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-08-11\n📝 Original message:On Aug 9, 2015 10:44 PM, \"Dave Scotese via bitcoin-dev\" \u003c\nbitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\u003e\n\u003e On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 3:42 AM, Thomas Zander via bitcoin-dev \u003c\nbitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e On Saturday 8. August 2015 15.45.28 Dave Scotese via bitcoin-dev wrote:\n\u003e\u003e \u003e Someone mentioned that when the backlog grows faster than it shrinks,\nthat\n\u003e\u003e \u003e is a real problem.  I don't think it is.  It is a problem for those who\n\u003e\u003e \u003e don't wait for even one confirmation\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e The mention you refer to was about the fact that the software doesn't\ncope\n\u003e\u003e well with a continuously growing mempool.\n\u003e\u003e If Bitcoind starts eating more and more memory, I expect lots of people\nthat\n\u003e\u003e run it now to turn it off.\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e That is a real problem then.  While emptying the mempool faster with\nbigger blocks will help to reduce the occurrence of that problem, I propose\na user-configurable default limit to the size of the mempool as a permanent\nsolution regardless of block size.  \"This software has stopped consuming\nmemory necessary to validate transactions.  You can override this by ...\"\nIf anyone feels that protecting those running full nodes from bitcoind\neating more and more memory this way is a good idea, I can make a BIP out\nof it if that would help.\n\nYou are completely right: this problem has nothing to do with the consensus\nblock size maximum and it has to be solved regardless of what the maximum\nis. No BIP is necessary for this. The \"doing nothing side\" has been working\non this too:\nhttps://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6470\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150811/277e1f15/attachment.html\u003e"}