memory allocation failed despite having enough ram available on the esp32 C3

[Rumidom]

I'm getting a MemoryError: memory allocation failed, allocating 23715 bytes error, however just before allocation I'm reading max new split: 98304 which suggests there is still 98kb available, as per this announcement: https://github.com/orgs/micropython/discussions/12316 'When MicroPython runs out of memory, it will now request more RAM from the OS' but on esp32 C3 it seems to be stuck on 64kb is there any way to manually set the initial ram available for micropython?

stack: 740 out of 15360
GC: total: 64000, used: 38528, free: 25472, max new split: 98304
No. of 1-blocks: 369, 2-blocks: 84, max blk sz: 142, max free sz: 955

[Rumidom]

I was appending bytes to a empty bytearray buffer,declaring the bytearray with the amount of memory I needed on the beginning of the program and the emptying it before appending bytes to it solved the issue