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.

CScheduler::Function serviceLoop = boost::bind(&CScheduler::serviceQueue, &scheduler);
    threadGroup.create_thread(boost::bind(&TraceThread<CScheduler::Function>, "scheduler", serviceLoop));
    /* Start the RPC server already.  It will be started in "warmup" mode
     * and not really process calls already (but it will signify connections
     * that the server is there and will be ready later).  Warmup mode will
     * be disabled when initialisation is finished.
     */
    if (fServer)
    {
        uiInterface.InitMessage.connect(SetRPCWarmupStatus);
        if (!AppInitServers(threadGroup))
            return InitError(_("Unable to start HTTP server. See debug log for details."));
    }
    int64_t nStart;
    
#ifdef ENABLE_WALLET
    if (!CWallet::Verify())
        return false;
#endif
    
    assert(!g_connman);
    g_connman = std::unique_ptr<CConnman>(new CConnman(GetRand(std::numeric_limits<uint64_t>::max()), GetRand(std::numeric_limits<uint64_t>::max())));
    CConnman& connman = *g_connman;
    peerLogic.reset(new PeerLogicValidation(&connman));
    RegisterValidationInterface(peerLogic.get());
    RegisterNodeSignals(GetNodeSignals());
    
    std::vector<string> uacomments;
    BOOST_FOREACH(string cmt, mapMultiArgs["-uacomment"])