better otel i think

k8s/deployment.yaml

@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ spec:
           value: "1h"
         - name: OTEL_NEEDLE_ADDR
           value: "http://127.0.0.1:5005"
+        # ~80% of the memory limit so the GC works harder before an OOMKill.
+        - name: GOMEMLIMIT
+          value: "800MiB"
         volumeMounts:
         - name: log-dir
           mountPath: /logs
@@ -136,10 +139,10 @@ spec:
           periodSeconds: 10
         resources:
           requests:
-            memory: "128Mi"
+            memory: "512Mi"
             cpu: "100m"
           limits:
-            memory: "256Mi"
+            memory: "1Gi"
             cpu: "500m"
       - name: needle-sidecar
         image: matst80/needle-sidecar:latest