Interesting non-altcoin forks?

[gmaxwell]

Something that I've wished for in Bitcoin core itself the last few days is an option to monitor the size ( in both transactions and kilobytes) of the memory pool of unconfirmed transactions.  I've been seeing it get up to 3000 or so and staying there for hours during the last few days, while some miners continue to turn in tiny 60k blocks that have a few dozen transactions at most.  

uh.

$ ~/bitcoin/src/bitcoin-cli  getmempoolinfo
{
    "size" : 320,
    "bytes" : 562732
}

or your friendly neighborhood debug console.

Since you weren't aware of the command, I'm guessing "seeing it" means bc.i-- take that with a huge heap of salt.

[Cryddit]

Right.  I know you can check the information at a given moment.  But that doesn't call itself to your attention, or allow you to track what it does over time. Well, I guess you could make a script that queries bitcoin-cli every minute or something.

What I was talking about is monitoring it in a way that allows you to see when it changes - a graph like network traffic that shows it over time, or at least some dynamically updated number in the Information panel of the qt node software like the current number of blocks in the information panel.

[arnuschky]

BTW, isn't there a fork that does blockchain pruning already?

[arnuschky]

BTW, isn't there a fork that does blockchain pruning already?

Nevermind, I found the relevant PR: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4701 and https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5863
It appears that autopruning has been merged into master 2 weeks ago.