Gradle build in Docker container taking up too much memory

Receive os memory updates and request more memory each time the task is complete than it is confirmed to be available so that the daemon stops.

import org.gradle.process.internal.health.memory.OsMemoryStatus
import org.gradle.process.internal.health.memory.OsMemoryStatusListener
import org.gradle.process.internal.health.memory.MemoryManagertask 

task expireWorkers {
    doFirst {
        long freeMemory = 0
        def memoryManager = services.get(MemoryManager.class)
        gradle.addListener(new TaskExecutionListener() {
            void beforeExecute(Task task) {
            }
            void afterExecute(Task task, TaskState state) {
                println "Freeing up memory"
                memoryManager.requestFreeMemory(freeMemory * 2)
            }
        })
        memoryManager.addListener(new OsMemoryStatusListener() {
            void onOsMemoryStatus(OsMemoryStatus osMemoryStatus) {
                freeMemory = osMemoryStatus.freePhysicalMemory
            }
        })
    }
}