Is there any benefit to increasing the maximum orphan tx in bitcoind? I'm still learning how all of this stuff works. I'm running a v0.15.1 full node. While I was watching the debug output, I noticed that orphan tx were being discarded because the maximum had been reached. To see what would happen, I restarted bitcoind with maxorphantx=1024.

Is there any benefit to the bitcoin community by preserving a larger number of orphan tx or am I just wasting memory?

Note: I forgot to mention that my copy of the blockchain is up to date. The orphans I'm seeing aren't because I'm missing blocks.
Is there any benefit to the bitcoin community by preserving a larger
  number of orphan tx


What kind of benefit/profit/etc can gain the community by the increased mempool for orphan transactions on one node? Literally, none.


  or am I just wasting memory?


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