diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d9b5bb986..ff5090ed0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Added
 - Added a manually triggered cloud image release workflow for isolated internal deployments. [#1566](https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/pull/1566)
 
+### Fixed
+- Fixed the web process being capped at a ~4GiB heap regardless of how much memory the container has, which caused multi-second garbage collection pauses on larger deployments. [#1569](https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/pull/1569)
+
 ## [5.1.6] - 2026-08-10
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/supervisord.conf b/supervisord.conf
index 572136331..8d813004e 100644
--- a/supervisord.conf
+++ b/supervisord.conf
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ redirect_stderr=true
 
 [program:web]
 command=./prefix-output.sh node packages/web/server.js
+environment=NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size-percentage=50"
 priority=20
 autostart=true
 autorestart=true
@@ -31,4 +32,4 @@ autorestart=true
 startretries=3
 stdout_logfile=/dev/fd/1
 stdout_logfile_maxbytes=0
-redirect_stderr=true
\ No newline at end of file
+redirect_stderr=true