@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ I ran the two collectors at the same time on my machine, using [this config](htt
Once these were both running, I checked `htop`, pressing `F4` with the filter `otelcol` so we can look at both processes. I got the following result:


`otelcol-contrib` is using 4.4% of system memory, with `otelcol` only using 1.9%, basically half. The `RES` and `SHR` values for each of these processes reflects that difference directly. Why is it that two processes largely built from the same code, running the same codepaths since they are on the same config, have such a large amount of difference in memory usage?