diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yaml b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
index 26a24a817c..a4500b2dfb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
@@ -45,5 +45,5 @@ jobs:
               size = i * 1024 ** 2 * 1024
               print(f"I am about to allocate {size / 1024 ** 3} GiB of memory", flush=True)
               a = bytearray(size)
-              time.sleep(5)
+              time.sleep(20)
               a