diff --git a/bin/start-slave.sh b/bin/start-slave.sh
index f8f57f0567961d72d6df695edf3ebec2663ca968..0e50276a016fcbf5c12c3c9829f728aed916affa 100755
--- a/bin/start-slave.sh
+++ b/bin/start-slave.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@ if [ -f "$f" ]; then
 fi
 
 echo "This jenkins slave.jar will run as PID $$."
-export JAVA_ARGS="-Xms256M -Xmx1G"
+export JAVA_ARGS="-Xms128M -Xmx512M"
 export MALLOC_ARENA_MAX=2
 exec java $JAVA_ARGS -jar /var/lib/jenkins/slave.jar
diff --git a/hosts/jenkins/etc/default/jenkins b/hosts/jenkins/etc/default/jenkins
index 76cf27358c5fd113fd4235025ec15adfd7a07808..862614586079947c36c4ebdbddfcdcdcbb09e431 100644
--- a/hosts/jenkins/etc/default/jenkins
+++ b/hosts/jenkins/etc/default/jenkins
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ JAVA_ARGS="-Djava.awt.headless=true"
 #JAVA_ARGS="-Xmx256m"
 #JAVA_ARGS="-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true" # make jenkins listen on IPv4 address
 # See some recommendation from https://jenkins.io/blog/2016/11/21/gc-tuning/
-JAVA_ARGS="$JAVA_ARGS -Xms8G -Xmx24G"  # heap settings
+JAVA_ARGS="$JAVA_ARGS -Xms4G -Xmx12G"  # heap settings
 JAVA_ARGS="$JAVA_ARGS -server -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch"
 # store heap dumps in case of OOM, to investigate it later
 JAVA_ARGS="$JAVA_ARGS -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=$JENKINS_HOME/heapDumps/"
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ JAVA_ARGS="$JAVA_ARGS -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintHeapA
 JAVA_ARGS="$JAVA_ARGS -XX:+PrintGCCause -XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution -XX:+PrintReferenceGC -XX:+PrintAdaptiveSizePolicy"
 # G1 GC settings
 JAVA_ARGS="$JAVA_ARGS -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrent -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled -XX:+UseStringDeduplication"
-JAVA_ARGS="$JAVA_ARGS -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:G1NewSizePercent=20 -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:G1SummarizeRSetStatsPeriod=1"
+JAVA_ARGS="$JAVA_ARGS -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:G1NewSizePercent=10 -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:G1SummarizeRSetStatsPeriod=1"
 # h01ger trying stuff
 JAVA_ARGS="$JAVA_ARGS -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:+UseCompressedClassPointers"
 export MALLOC_ARENA_MAX=2