diff --git a/.github/workflows/push.yml b/.github/workflows/push.yml
index 72e57733b3573..5dddd877269e6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/push.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/push.yml
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Setting up DB mysql
         if: ${{ matrix.db == 'mysqli' }}
-        uses: johanmeiring/mysql-action@tmpfs-patch
+        uses: moodlehq/mysql-action@v1
         with:
           collation server: utf8mb4_bin
           mysql version: 5.7
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ jobs:
           mysql user: test
           mysql password: test
           use tmpfs: true
+          tmpfs size: '1024M'
+          extra conf: --skip-log-bin
 
       - name: Setting up DB pgsql
         if: ${{ matrix.db == 'pgsql' }}
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index cc3c4d72773a1..8966e8285e66e 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ install:
             sudo service mysql stop
             sudo mv /var/lib/mysql /mnt/ramdisk
             sudo ln -s /mnt/ramdisk/mysql /var/lib/mysql
-            sudo service mysql restart
+            echo -e "[mysqld]\nskip-log-bin" | sudo tee -a /etc/mysql/my.cnf
+            sudo service mysql start
         fi
     - >
         if [ "$DB" = 'pgsql' ];
@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@ install:
             sudo mv /var/lib/postgresql /mnt/ramdisk
             sudo ln -s /mnt/ramdisk/postgresql /var/lib/postgresql
             sudo service postgresql start 9.6
+            sh -c 'until pg_isready -p 5432; do echo "Waiting for the DB to be up..."; sleep 2; done'
         fi
     - >
         if [ "$TASK" = 'PHPUNIT' ];