All the nodes should have different peers, so the mempool contents will never be identical, so diagnosis normal.
However, maybe you've changed the minimum relay amount on some of them? Or, do some run 24/7, while others are shutdown for any length of time? Those factors will contribute to how full a given node's mempool is, and/or how full it can potentially be. Plus, the propagation logic is subtle, it certainly doesn't try to get every tx relayed to all peers ASAP.
Cool, thanks. I just saw them all drop to 0 and a few minutes later all had wildly different numbers. If one was at 450 and another at 460 and the others also in that range then I would not think twice but 400 to 750 just seemed way off.
However, maybe you've changed the minimum relay amount on some of them? Or, do some run 24/7, while others are shutdown for any length of time? Those factors will contribute to how full a given node's mempool is, and/or how full it can potentially be. Plus, the propagation logic is subtle, it certainly doesn't try to get every tx relayed to all peers ASAP.
Nope, outside of the basic changes on one node to the conf file to run electrum all have no settings in the conf file outside of an addnode= the cable ip or in the case of the cable node it points back to the electrum node.
All are up 24/7
Probably not important in the real world, I had just never seen it before.
How often do you really look at the mempool on your nodes.
Thanks,
Dave