diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9704b52301..8aa85923a7 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2896,9 +2896,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "sysinfo"
-version = "0.20.5"
+version = "0.21.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e223c65cd36b485a34c2ce6e38efa40777d31c4166d9076030c74cdcf971679f"
+checksum = "8f88d66f3341b688163d3585037954ff276cf24a234d015b30025318a3e3449a"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
  "core-foundation-sys",
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
index b47f9c8fe5..166895d068 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ csv = "1.1.3"
 glob = "0.3.0"
 Inflector = "0.11"
 thiserror = "1.0.29"
-sysinfo = "0.20.4"
+sysinfo = "0.21.2"
 chrono = { version = "0.4.19", features = ["serde"] }
 chrono-humanize = "0.2.1"
 chrono-tz = "0.6.0"
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/system/ps.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/system/ps.rs
index ed5d4a6e5d..0d51089aaf 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/system/ps.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/system/ps.rs
@@ -54,11 +54,15 @@ fn run_ps(engine_state: &EngineState, call: &Call) -> Result<PipelineData, Shell
     let mut sys = System::new_all();
     sys.refresh_all();
 
+    let duration = std::time::Duration::from_millis(500);
+    std::thread::sleep(duration);
+
     let mut output = vec![];
 
     let result: Vec<_> = sys.processes().iter().map(|x| *x.0).collect();
 
     for pid in result {
+        sys.refresh_process(pid);
         if let Some(result) = sys.process(pid) {
             let mut cols = vec![];
             let mut vals = vec![];