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I'm not entirely sure on this, but I believe that what we're seeing is the WASM runtime allocating memory for its potential needs, but not totally using it all.

The entire filesystem, all the executables, all uploaded files, and all database data lives in memory in the virtual filesystem. I think we could trim down the default allocation but it might actually be meaningless anyway; that GB won't steal real RAM unless it fills up inside the environment.

Someone can probably check me on this, but if my memory serves me right this is what's going on.



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