Currently the mempool isn't persisted across restarts. The historical argument against doing this is that it would make transactions immortal. Expiration now addresses that issue.

Without preserving the mempool node behavior changes drastically across restarts which complicates production use (e.g. mining overly small/low fee blocks) as well as development testing. The lack of retention also causes the loss of txn priority modifications made with prioritisetransaction which makes the API less reliable.

}
        
        nNextSweep = nMinExpTime + ORPHAN_TX_EXPIRE_INTERVAL;
        if (nErased > 0) LogPrint("mempool", "Erased %d orphan tx due to expiration\n", nErased);
    }
    while (mapOrphanTransactions.size() > nMaxOrphans)
    {
        
        uint256 randomhash = GetRandHash();
        map<uint256, COrphanTx>::iterator it = mapOrphanTransactions.lower_bound(randomhash);
        if (it == mapOrphanTransactions.end())
            it = mapOrphanTransactions.begin();
        EraseOrphanTx(it->first);
        ++nEvicted;
    }
    return nEvicted;
}
bool IsFinalTx(const CTransaction &tx, int nBlockHeight, int64_t nBlockTime)
{
    if (tx.nLockTime == 0)
        return true;
    if ((int64_t)tx.nLockTime < ((int64_t)tx.nLockTime < LOCKTIME_THRESHOLD ? (int64_t)nBlockHeight : nBlockTime))
        return true;
    for (const auto& txin : tx.vin) {
        if (!(txin.nSequence == CTxIn::SEQUENCE_FINAL))
            return false;
    }
    return true;
}
bool CheckFinalTx(const CTransaction &tx, int flags)