Question "Profiler Used Memory" on non-development player

Hello,

I'm working on a medium sized project and I'm looking into optimizing the game's memory footprint.
Unity is 2021.3.11f1.

While doing so, I used ProfilerRecorder
I'm tracking these stat names: "System Used Memory", "Total Used Memory", "Total Reserved Memory", "GC Used Memory", "GC Reserved Memory", "Profiler Used Memory", "Profiler Reserved Memory",

What I've noticed is that on release builds, the values displayed for "Profiler Used Memory" and "Profiler Reserved Memory" are quite high. (hundreds of MBs)
I'm trying to understand if those numbers are reliable. They don't look reliable, because a build with "development" off shouldn't do that. It's worth mentioning that the numbers returned by these stats keep changing as you progress through the game, the same way the "GC" stats do. So they seem correlated to the actual memory used.
Worth mentioning that "System Used Memory" and "Total Used Memory" return accurate values that double-check with the OS-reported memory usage.
Another worthy mention is that this behaviour can be noticed on non-development builds only.

One thought is that by calling "ProfilerRecorder.StartNew" at least once, it auto-starts the profiling code. But is that code supposed to be there at all, when "development" is off? Stats like "GC Allocated In Frame" don't display anything on release, so those are off.
Another one is that "Profiler.enabled = false" doesn't actually turn it off.

It really depends on the way the profiler is implemented, and that's something that I don't know how to check.

Did anyone else notice this behaviour?
Anyone from Unity care to take a look?

Thanks!

 

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