GC Duration Increased After Using OTel Java Agent

[mike9421]

Describe the bug

From left to right: average, minimum, maximum.

After migrating to OTel java agent, the average GC duration has increased from a previous peak of 87ms to 182ms.

Steps to reproduce

Just using OTel Java agent

Expected behavior

The GC duration hasn't changed significantly

Actual behavior

The GC duration has increased from a previous peak of 87ms to 182ms

Javaagent or library instrumentation version

v2.12.0

Environment

JDK:
java version "1.8.0_202"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_202-b08)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.202-b08, mixed mode)

Additional context

I saw a previous issue about this #6366, but I've noticed the GC time has increased by quite a lot. I'm a bit concerned it could start impacting our application performance.

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