tmp : Introduce intentional memory retention for regression testing

This commit allocates a large 300MB slice at startup and ensures it is
not garbage collected by keeping a reference alive.

Signed-off-by: Rohan Kumar <[email protected]>

Author: rohanKanojia

main.go

@@ -94,6 +94,14 @@ func init() {
 }
 
 func main() {
+	// Allocate memory once at start
+	dummy := make([]byte, 300*1024*1024)
+	for i := range dummy {
+		dummy[i] = byte(i % 255)
+	}
+
+	// Prevent GC from reclaiming it
+	_ = dummy
 	var metricsAddr string
 	var enableLeaderElection bool
 	flag.StringVar(&metricsAddr, "metrics-addr", ":8443", "The address the metric endpoint binds to.")