of the proxy depends on the total configuration state the proxy holds.
A large number of listeners, clusters, and routes can increase memory usage.
In a large namespace with <a href=/v1.20/docs/reference/config/networking/sidecar/>namespace isolation</a> enabled, the proxy consumes approximately 50 MB of memory.</p><p>Since the proxy normally doesn&rsquo;t buffer the data passing through,
request rate doesn&rsquo;t affect the memory consumption.</p><h3 id=latency>Latency</h3><p>Since Istio injects a sidecar