diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 14aa33a43..13a9aa9f9 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 android.enableResourceOptimizations=true
 android.useAndroidX=true
 org.gradle.parallel=true
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4g -Dkotlin.daemon.jvm.options="-Xmx3g" -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-XX:+UseParallelGC -Xmx4g -Dkotlin.daemon.jvm.options="-Xmx3g" -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
 android.databinding.incremental=true