Is this normal?

So, is it typical to see only 13 peers and a 50mb mempool? Just curious if anyone else has experienced this.

You have 13 outbound peers only or is it in total? The mempool takes several minutes to a few hours to build up after you start the node, even if the IBD is finished then you still have to wait for your peers to send you unconfirmed transactions that should be placed in there.

ah yes it's set to max 300 mb.

Anything 125 peers and below is "normal", Are you asking why you have 13 outbound peers instead of the "8+2(+1 temp)" maximum? If so, you might have used "addnode" that included the extra 2 or 3 more peers, it can include additional 8 peers. Reference: github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/reduce-memory.md?plain=1#L25-L33 For the 50MB mempool, that depends on how many unconfirmed transaction your node has accepted so far. Question; is your node still in 'initial block download' state? And you put little to no information; settings, command line args?