>The <a href=https://github.com/istio/tools/tree/release-1.16/perf/load>Istio load tests</a> mesh consists
of <strong>1000</strong> services and <strong>2000</strong> sidecars with 70,000 mesh-wide requests per second.
After running the tests using Istio 1.16.2, we get the following results:</p><ul><li>The Envoy proxy uses <strong>0.35 vCPU</strong> and <strong>40 MB memory</strong> per 1000 requests per second going through the proxy.</li><li>Istiod uses <strong>1 vCPU</strong> and 1.5 GB of memory.</li><l