diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 194f43fba3f9..25708d2ce154 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ android.nonTransitiveRClass=true
 
 
 # JVM arguments to optimize heap usage, enable heap dump on out-of-memory errors, and set the file encoding
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx6g -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=1g
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx3g -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512m
 org.gradle.dependency.verification.console=verbose
-kotlin.daemon.jvmargs=-Xmx6144m -XX:+UseParallelGC
+kotlin.daemon.jvmargs=-Xmx3g -XX:+UseParallelGC
 org.gradle.caching=true
 org.gradle.parallel=true
 org.gradle.configureondemand=true
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ kapt.incremental.apt=true
 org.gradle.daemon=true
 org.gradle.configuration-cache=true
 
+org.gradle.workers.max=4
+
 # automatically aded via AGP migration
 # see https://developer.android.com/build/releases/agp-9-0-0-release-notes
 # should be changed with https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/15993