diff --git a/deployment/clouddeploy/gke-workers/base/gitter.yaml b/deployment/clouddeploy/gke-workers/base/gitter.yaml
index eff38dee82e..d95d857a7b3 100644
--- a/deployment/clouddeploy/gke-workers/base/gitter.yaml
+++ b/deployment/clouddeploy/gke-workers/base/gitter.yaml
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ spec:
           - "--port=8888"
           - "--work_dir=/work/gitter"
           - "--fetch_timeout=1h"
+        env:
+        - name: GOMEMLIMIT
+          value: "100GiB"
         volumeMounts:
         - mountPath: /work
           name: disk-data