Is use with a parameter: reload required tends to increase memory in Clojure?

Question

I have an application that, in order to reload plugins, requires them with the option: reload, when they need to be reloaded. I noticed that this creates memory of about 2-3 megabytes at a time when I do this. I am curious that this could happen. Is data from previous reboots stored in memory? Is there a way to completely reload the namespace?

EDIT: It is also important to note that each of these plugins that reload creates new defmethods for the multimethod in a different namespace (which never reloads). Perhaps the methods are stored in memory upon reboot?

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