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However, these flags are not present by default in the 23.7.2 release. The comparative memory usage between 23.7.2 and 23.7.3-RC can be seen in the screenshots provided below. To compare apples to apples, we enabled the same GC flags on 23.7.2.
Our tests are conducted on Azure VM with 16 GiB RAM, and all nodes are rebooted every Monday. This is the reason for the observed drops in memory usage on the 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th of September.
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