Just goes to show how many people on Bitcointalk are actually running full nodes. Unconfirmed tx's have been creeping slowly down from 10,000 for the past 2 weeks on my node.
That's strange. I have maxmempool set to 4096MB on my node and unconfirmed tx's have dropped to around 2,200. Am I connected mostly to crap nodes that don't relay?
Don't forget this setting:
-mempoolexpiry=
Do not keep transactions in the mempool longer than hours (default: 72)