diff --git a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
index 2e537c5cd5..d5959c4003 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ jobs:
           java-version: 21
       - name: Assemble
         run: |
-            echo "org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=1g -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" >> gradle.properties
-            ./gradlew --no-daemon assembleDebug
+          mkdir -p "$HOME/.gradle"
+          echo "org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx3g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError" > "$HOME/.gradle/gradle.properties"
+          ./gradlew --no-daemon assembleDebug
       - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
         uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@8aad20d150bbac5944a9f9d289da16a4b0d87c1e # v4.36.2