Possible memory leak on version v0.41.x

[garutilorenzo]

Describe the bug
It seems to be a memory leak somewhere with version v0.41.x.
With earlier releases we never experienced any memory problem. We are using aws-otel-collector to send opentelemetry traces to a remote endpoint (Coralogix).
From 10 days our fargate container is crashing due to memory usage.
We haven't released any new application version, and the application traffic is unchanged.
We are using "latest" tag on our task definition, and we are not using a specific version tag.

Our dev environment that is using version v0.40.2 is not affected by the problem.

Here the container is reaching the max memory usage (1GB).
Fargate kills the container and restart the service

What did you expect to see?
Constant memory usage.

What did you see instead?
Random spike in memory usage

Environment
We are using aws-otel-collector as a fargate service to send opentelemetry traces to a remote endpoint (Coralogix).
We are using "latest" tag on our task definition, and we are not usign a specifig version tag.

Additional context
N/A

[garutilorenzo]

Adding more information.
We tried to upgrade our dev environment from v0.40.2 to v0.41.1 (latest).

This is the result:

There is clear memory increase and is growing constantly

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