diff --git a/metrics/proc.go b/metrics/proc.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5a0b81c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/metrics/proc.go
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+package metrics
+
+import (
+	linuxproc "github.com/c9s/goprocinfo/linux"
+	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/system"
+)
+
+var sysMemTotal = getSysMemTotal()
+var clockTicksPerSecond = uint64(system.GetClockTicks())
+
+const nanoSecondsPerSecond = 1e9
+
+func getSysMemTotal() int64 {
+	stat, err := linuxproc.ReadMemInfo("/proc/meminfo")
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Errorf("error reading system stats: %s", err)
+		return 0
+	}
+	return int64(stat.MemTotal * 1024)
+}
+
+func getSysCPUUsage() uint64 {
+	stat, err := linuxproc.ReadStat("/proc/stat")
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Errorf("error reading system stats: %s", err)
+		return 0
+	}
+
+	sum := stat.CPUStatAll.User +
+		stat.CPUStatAll.Nice +
+		stat.CPUStatAll.System +
+		stat.CPUStatAll.Idle +
+		stat.CPUStatAll.IOWait +
+		stat.CPUStatAll.IRQ +
+		stat.CPUStatAll.SoftIRQ +
+		stat.CPUStatAll.Steal +
+		stat.CPUStatAll.Guest +
+		stat.CPUStatAll.GuestNice
+
+	return (sum * nanoSecondsPerSecond) / clockTicksPerSecond
+}
diff --git a/metrics/runc.go b/metrics/runc.go
index 5db08d6..b063314 100644
--- a/metrics/runc.go
+++ b/metrics/runc.go
@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ func (c *Runc) ReadCPU(stats *cgroups.Stats) {
 func (c *Runc) ReadMem(stats *cgroups.Stats) {
 	c.MemUsage = int64(stats.MemoryStats.Usage.Usage)
 	c.MemLimit = int64(stats.MemoryStats.Usage.Limit)
+	if c.MemLimit > sysMemTotal && sysMemTotal > 0 {
+		c.MemLimit = sysMemTotal
+	}
 	c.MemPercent = round((float64(c.MemUsage) / float64(c.MemLimit)) * 100)
 }