diff --git a/src/libs/kata-types/Cargo.toml b/src/libs/kata-types/Cargo.toml
index ecd86cec4..2879dc5a2 100644
--- a/src/libs/kata-types/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/libs/kata-types/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ serde_json = "1.0.73"
 thiserror = "1.0"
 toml = "0.5.8"
 serde-enum-str = "0.4"
-sysinfo = "0.30.5"
+sysinfo = "0.34.2"
 
 oci-spec = { version = "0.6.8", features = ["runtime"] }
 safe-path = { path = "../safe-path" }
diff --git a/src/libs/kata-types/src/config/hypervisor/mod.rs b/src/libs/kata-types/src/config/hypervisor/mod.rs
index c9a1487fc..ef7d9773d 100644
--- a/src/libs/kata-types/src/config/hypervisor/mod.rs
+++ b/src/libs/kata-types/src/config/hypervisor/mod.rs
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::io::{self, Result};
 use std::path::Path;
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
-use sysinfo::System;
+use sysinfo::{MemoryRefreshKind, RefreshKind, System};
 
 mod dragonball;
 pub use self::dragonball::{DragonballConfig, HYPERVISOR_NAME_DRAGONBALL};
@@ -751,7 +751,9 @@ impl MemoryInfo {
             "Memory backend file {} is invalid: {}"
         )?;
         if self.default_maxmemory == 0 {
-            let s = System::new_all();
+            let s = System::new_with_specifics(
+                RefreshKind::nothing().with_memory(MemoryRefreshKind::everything()),
+            );
             self.default_maxmemory = Byte::from_u64(s.total_memory())
                 .get_adjusted_unit(Unit::MiB)
                 .get_value() as u32;