diff --git a/pkg/sql/logictest/logic.go b/pkg/sql/logictest/logic.go
index 0ce2b4737c3e..8e2b30ef69a0 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/logictest/logic.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/logictest/logic.go
@@ -1326,7 +1326,7 @@ func (t *logicTest) newCluster(
 	if serverArgs.MaxSQLMemoryLimit == 0 {
 		// Specify a fixed memory limit (some test cases verify OOM conditions;
 		// we don't want those to take long on large machines).
-		serverArgs.MaxSQLMemoryLimit = 192 * 1024 * 1024
+		serverArgs.MaxSQLMemoryLimit = 256 * 1024 * 1024
 	}
 	// We have some queries that bump into 100MB default temp storage limit
 	// when run with fakedist-disk config, so we'll use a larger limit here.