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Where in ~/.bitcoin are the two pools in question stored when their size grows above the size set by dbcache and maxmempool in bitcoin.conf. Is UTXO pool written to such location at Bitcoin Core's shutdown?

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mempool.dat stores the obvious, but it it only written there when the node is shut down

chainstate/ stores the entire UTXO, all the time

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    "all the time" = "every time the chainstate cache is flushed", which may be only once per day in current Bitcoin Core version (depending on -dbcache setting).
    – Pieter Wuille
    Commented Feb 5, 2021 at 19:59

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