diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 00554e72..154930f6 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -465,6 +465,12 @@ version = "1.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "a2bd12c1caf447e69cd4528f47f94d203fd2582878ecb9e9465484c4148a8223"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "bytesize"
+version = "1.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a3e368af43e418a04d52505cf3dbc23dda4e3407ae2fa99fd0e4f308ce546acc"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cc"
 version = "1.0.86"
@@ -1198,6 +1204,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "libsecp256k1",
  "num-bigint",
  "num-traits",
+ "num_cpus",
  "parking_lot",
  "pea2pea",
  "prost 0.11.9",
@@ -1209,6 +1216,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "sha3",
  "snow",
  "sqlx",
+ "systemstat",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
@@ -3662,6 +3670,20 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "systemstat"
+version = "0.2.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a24aec24a9312c83999a28e3ef9db7e2afd5c64bf47725b758cdc1cafd5b0bd2"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytesize",
+ "lazy_static",
+ "libc",
+ "nom",
+ "time",
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tap"
 version = "1.0.1"
diff --git a/crates/node/Cargo.toml b/crates/node/Cargo.toml
index ddf79254..e0f30767 100644
--- a/crates/node/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/node/Cargo.toml
@@ -35,12 +35,14 @@ home = { version = "0.5", optional = true}
 http-body-util = { version = "0.1", optional = true }
 hyper = { version = "1", features = ["full"], optional = true }
 hyper-util = { version = "0.1", features = ["full"], optional = true }
+num_cpus = { version = "1.4.0", optional = true }
 num-traits = { version = "0.2", optional = true }
 parking_lot = { version = "0.12", optional = true }
 pea2pea = { version = "0.48", optional = true }
 prost = { version = "0.11", optional = true }
 qapi = { version = "0.14", features = [ "qmp", "async-tokio-net" ], optional = true }
 snow = { version = "0.9", optional = true }
+systemstat = { version = "0.2.3", optional = true }
 tokio-stream = { version = "0.1", optional = true }
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7", optional = true }
 tokio-vsock = { version = "0.4.0", features = ["tonic-conn"], optional = true }
@@ -62,12 +64,14 @@ node-binary = [
   "http-body-util",
   "hyper",
   "hyper-util",
+  "num_cpus",
   "num-traits",
   "parking_lot",
   "pea2pea",
   "prost",
   "qapi",
   "snow",
+  "systemstat",
   "tokio-stream",
   "tokio-util",
   "tokio-vsock",
diff --git a/crates/node/src/cli.rs b/crates/node/src/cli.rs
index dda104fa..b05a1aba 100644
--- a/crates/node/src/cli.rs
+++ b/crates/node/src/cli.rs
@@ -101,21 +101,15 @@ pub struct Config {
     )]
     pub vsock_listen_port: u32,
 
-    #[arg(
-        long,
-        long_help = "Number of CPUs available",
-        env = "GEVULOT_CPUS",
-        default_value_t = 8
-    )]
-    pub num_cpus: u64,
+    #[arg(long, long_help = "Number of CPUs available", env = "GEVULOT_CPUS")]
+    pub num_cpus: Option<u64>,
 
     #[arg(
         long,
         long_help = "Amount of memory available (in GBs)",
-        env = "GEVULOT_MEM_GB",
-        default_value_t = 8
+        env = "GEVULOT_MEM_GB"
     )]
-    pub mem_gb: u64,
+    pub mem_gb: Option<u64>,
 
     #[arg(long, long_help = "GPU PCI devices", env = "GEVULOT_GPU_DEVICES")]
     pub gpu_devices: Option<String>,
diff --git a/crates/node/src/main.rs b/crates/node/src/main.rs
index 50b5d8f4..f7b84d2d 100644
--- a/crates/node/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/node/src/main.rs
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ use std::{
     thread::sleep,
     time::Duration,
 };
+use systemstat::{ByteSize, Platform, System};
 use tokio::sync::mpsc;
 use tokio::sync::{Mutex as TMutex, RwLock};
 use tokio_stream::wrappers::UnboundedReceiverStream;
@@ -234,11 +235,30 @@ async fn run(config: Arc<Config>) -> Result<()> {
     let p2p_listen_addr = p2p.node().start_listening().await?;
     tracing::info!("listening for p2p at {}", p2p_listen_addr);
 
-    // TODO(tuommaki): read total available resources from config / acquire system stats.
+    let sys = System::new();
     let num_gpus = if config.gpu_devices.is_some() { 1 } else { 0 };
+    let num_cpus = match config.num_cpus {
+        Some(cpus) => cpus,
+        None => num_cpus::get() as u64,
+    };
+    let available_mem = match config.mem_gb {
+        Some(mem_gb) => mem_gb * 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
+        None => {
+            let mem = sys.memory()?;
+            mem.total.as_u64()
+        }
+    };
+
+    tracing::info!(
+        "node configured with {} CPUs, {} MEM and {} GPUs",
+        num_cpus,
+        ByteSize(available_mem).to_string_as(true),
+        num_gpus
+    );
+
     let resource_manager = Arc::new(Mutex::new(scheduler::ResourceManager::new(
-        config.mem_gb * 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
-        config.num_cpus,
+        available_mem,
+        num_cpus,
         num_gpus,
     )));
 
diff --git a/crates/node/src/rpc_server/mod.rs b/crates/node/src/rpc_server/mod.rs
index da58dc26..2372ce66 100644
--- a/crates/node/src/rpc_server/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/node/src/rpc_server/mod.rs
@@ -442,8 +442,8 @@ mod tests {
             p2p_advertised_listen_addr: None,
             provider: "qemu".to_string(),
             vsock_listen_port: 8080,
-            num_cpus: 8,
-            mem_gb: 8,
+            num_cpus: None,
+            mem_gb: None,
             gpu_devices: None,
             http_download_port: 0,
         });