For the past month there has been a backlog of 6000 to 10,000 transactions in the mempool.<p>This is causing nodes to go offline. There are about 500 to 1000 rasberry pies operating as full nodes on the network and their 1 GB of ram is not enough to hold the backlog of tx.<p>Blockstream is proposing to raise the limit to 2MB 2 years from now. That would be a disaster for the network.