diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 2e4b7790eaf9..871d6f226ec8 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ jobs:
           name: Test WordPress
           environment:
             SUPPRESS_GUTENBERG_MOBILE_JS_BUNDLE_BUILD: 1
-          command: SUPPRESS_GUTENBERG_MOBILE_JS_BUNDLE_BUILD=1 ./gradlew testVanillaRelease --stacktrace --no-daemon -Dorg.gradle.jvmargs="-Xmx1536m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError"
+          command: SUPPRESS_GUTENBERG_MOBILE_JS_BUNDLE_BUILD=1 ./gradlew testVanillaRelease --stacktrace --no-daemon
       - run:
           name: Test WordPressUtils
           environment:
diff --git a/gradle.properties-example b/gradle.properties-example
index f07f6e666cc4..032b3dc9f164 100644
--- a/gradle.properties-example
+++ b/gradle.properties-example
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # These are the default Gradle properties for WordPress-Android
 # Feel free to tweak them for your machine (e.g. change -Xmx value below)
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx3g -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1536m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
 org.gradle.parallel=false
 org.gradle.configureondemand=true
 org.gradle.caching=true