On large scale clusters such as 250 nodes with Cluster density-v2 Operator memory usage has increased by ~20% starting from Dec 7 2025.

1. Run cluster-density-v2 test with 250 nodes.
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      "rssOperatorTotals_avg": {
        "value": 281265874.8235294,
        "percentage_change": 19.602909211846235,
        "labels": ""
      },

Justification for the increased memory usage and if possible optimize to get it back to previous levels.