diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index b185cc7fb1..7cc8c7bc16 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Daemons heap size
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx12g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=4g -XX:+CrashOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -XX:+UseParallelGC
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx8g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=2g -XX:+CrashOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -XX:+UseParallelGC
 org.gradle.caching=true
 org.gradle.parallel=true
 org.gradle.configureondemand=true