diff --git a/BUILDING.txt b/BUILDING.txt
index dec3011f81..6c266e5cb3 100644
--- a/BUILDING.txt
+++ b/BUILDING.txt
@@ -331,10 +331,10 @@ If the build process fails with an out of memory error, you should be able to fi
 it by increasing the memory used by maven which can be done via the environment
 variable MAVEN_OPTS.
 
-Here is an example setting to allocate between 256 MB and 1 GB of heap space to
+Here is an example setting to allocate between 256 MB and 1.5 GB of heap space to
 Maven
 
-export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx1g"
+export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx1536m"
 
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diff --git a/dev-support/docker/Dockerfile b/dev-support/docker/Dockerfile
index bbc3e1fb77..6d05fe139f 100644
--- a/dev-support/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/dev-support/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ RUN apt-get -y install nodejs && \
 ###
 # Avoid out of memory errors in builds
 ###
-ENV MAVEN_OPTS -Xms256m -Xmx1g
+ENV MAVEN_OPTS -Xms256m -Xmx1536m
 
 
 ###