# Disable Gradle Daemon **URL:** \ **Category:** Mobile\ **Tags:** gradle, android\ **Created:** [June 29, 2016, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/disable-gradle-daemon/4875 "2016-06-29T13:46:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ndurell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/ndurell/32/1538_2.png) [@ndurell](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/ndurell)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/disable-gradle-daemon/4875/1 "2016-06-29T13:46:20Z")
My builds are using too much memory. When I looked at the memory usage in top I see a gradle daemon process. According to the gradle documentation it is not recommended to run a gradle daemon in a ci environment. My question is how do I disable the daemon? I’ve tried running: ./gradlew --stop before my build commands. As well as adding the --no-daemon option to the commands. Thanks, Noah ---
**Author:** ![btanev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/btanev/32/13702_2.png) [@btanev](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/btanev)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/disable-gradle-daemon/4875/2 "2016-08-16T14:51:29Z")
The Gradle Daemon is enabled by default in Gradle 3.0 which was released recently. I’m not sure if this was your problem at first place. Anyway to disable it: In your `gradle.properties` file add the following line: ```auto org.gradle.daemon=false ``` [https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle\_daemon.html#sec:disabling\_the\_daemon](https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle_daemon.html#sec:disabling_the_daemon) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/original/3X/5/1/511608acda8e85906e15909b57bd0a46c1dbe291.png) [@system](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/disable-gradle-daemon/4875/3 "2018-06-18T11:33:29Z")