diff --git a/.github/workflows/qa.yaml b/.github/workflows/qa.yaml
index 343374383..6289f357e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/qa.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/qa.yaml
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ on:
 env:
   DEBIAN_FRONTEND: noninteractive
   GO_TESTS_TIMEOUT: 20m
+  # Prevents github to stop the job, we've 16GB of RAM, so let's limit the go usage at least.
+  # See: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/writing-workflows/choosing-where-your-workflow-runs/choosing-the-runner-for-a-job#choosing-github-hosted-runners
+  GOMEMLIMIT: 5120MiB
+
   apt_deps: >-
     libpam-dev
     libglib2.0-dev