Memory utilization can grow significantly when struct fields are used for configuration of Envoy components
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*Title*: Memory utilization can grow significantly when struct fields are used for configuration of Envoy components.
*Description*:
In my test bootstrap config with http_connection_manager configuration in "config" field with 50K virtual hosts uses ~1807MB. The same configuration, but put in "typed_config" results in 292MB.
This is due to maps being created to represent struct fields during reflection in MessageUtil::checkForDeprecation call.
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Test that uses "typed_config" for http_connection_manager configuration: https://github.com/dmitri-d/envoy/blob/b6b2a9cff293a1bd97166e742091900fa36ce388/test/integration/rds_memory_stats_test.cc
Similar to the test above, but uses "config", which is a struct field: https://github.com/dmitri-d/envoy/blob/rds-memory-stats/test/integration/rds_memory_stats_test.cc
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