The unified test runner currently injects a unique connection string option into each client it creates in order to ensure libmongoc clients are not re-used (see: MongoDB\Tests\UnifiedSpecTests\Context::createClient()). This is needed for txnNumber assertions, since spec tests expect those to start from 1 (not the case if a persistent client is re-used). There is a TODO item to remove that in favor of the disableClientPersistence option from PHPC-1645. Doing so would likely conserve memory usage since clients would not accumulate throughout the test suite.

A similar change can also be made in the legacy transaction spec test runner, which added a random "p" URI option (see: MongoDB\Tests\SpecTests\fromTransactions()).