diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 9d40057b9d..290b6c1d71 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -3,3 +3,6 @@ kotlin.code.style=official
 # com.github.vlsi.gradle-extensions prints only failing or slow test results
 slowTestLogThreshold=500
 slowSuiteLogThreshold=5000
+
+# the project requires at the following MB to not run into OOM in github actions
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1g