diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
index 8fa97fe6910c..31d485a80d5a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ jobs:
         java-version: 11
     - name: Build with Maven
       run: |
-        export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx2g -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=1g -Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.defaultLogLevel=WARN"
+        export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xss256m -Xmx2g -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=1g -Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.defaultLogLevel=WARN"
         export MAVEN_CLI_OPTS="--no-transfer-progress"
         # It uses Maven's 'install' intentionally, see https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/26414.
         ./build/mvn $MAVEN_CLI_OPTS -DskipTests -Pyarn -Pmesos -Pkubernetes -Phive -Phive-thriftserver -Phadoop-cloud -Djava.version=11 install