doc: add important information about tx flood to release notes
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This does not affect wallet forward or backward compatibility. There are no
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This does not affect wallet forward or backward compatibility. There are no
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known problems when downgrading from 0.11.x to 0.10.x.
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known problems when downgrading from 0.11.x to 0.10.x.
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Important information
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Transaction flooding
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At the time of this release, the P2P network is being flooded with low-fee
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transactions. This causes a ballooning of the mempool size.
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If this growth of the mempool causes problematic memory use on your node, it is
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possible to change a few configuration options to work around this. The growth
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of the mempool can be monitored with the RPC command `getmempoolinfo`.
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One is to increase the minimum transaction relay fee `minrelaytxfee`, which
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defaults to 0.00001. This will cause transactions with fewer BTC/kB fee to be
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rejected, and thus fewer transactions entering the mempool.
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The other is to restrict the relaying of free transactions with
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`limitfreerelay`. This option sets the number of kB/minute at which
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free transactions (with enough priority) will be accepted. It defaults to 15.
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Reducing this number reduces the speed at which the mempool can grow due
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to free transactions.
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For example, add the following to `bitcoin.conf`:
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minrelaytxfee=0.00005
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limitfreerelay=5
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More robust solutions are being worked on for a follow-up release.
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Notable changes
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Notable changes
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