diff --git a/colossalai/initialize.py b/colossalai/initialize.py
index b806356e4..08bd43f62 100644
--- a/colossalai/initialize.py
+++ b/colossalai/initialize.py
@@ -275,9 +275,6 @@ def initialize(model: nn.Module,
                                               optimizer_config=optimizer_config)
 
         logger.info("Initializing ZeRO model and optimizer finished!", ranks=[0])
-        # FIXME() throw a warning if using zero with MP
-        if gpc.get_world_size(ParallelMode.MODEL) > 1:
-            logger.warning("ZeRO currently has not been tested with model parallelism.", ranks=[0])
     else:
         if isinstance(model, nn.Module):
             # first sync model across dp ranks
diff --git a/colossalai/utils/__init__.py b/colossalai/utils/__init__.py
index fa69a33f6..6e1720b3d 100644
--- a/colossalai/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/colossalai/utils/__init__.py
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ from .common import (clip_grad_norm_fp32, conditional_context, copy_tensor_paral
                      param_is_not_tensor_parallel_duplicate, print_rank_0, switch_virtual_pipeline_parallel_rank,
                      sync_model_param, disposable)
 from .data_sampler import DataParallelSampler, get_dataloader
-from .memory import report_memory_usage, colo_device_memory_used, colo_set_process_memory_fraction, colo_device_memory_capacity
+from .memory import (report_memory_usage, colo_device_memory_used, colo_set_process_memory_fraction,
+                     colo_device_memory_capacity, colo_set_cpu_memory_capacity, colo_get_cpu_memory_capacity)
 from .timer import MultiTimer, Timer
 from .tensor_detector import TensorDetector
 
@@ -19,5 +20,5 @@ __all__ = [
     'report_memory_usage', 'colo_device_memory_capacity', 'colo_device_memory_used', 'colo_set_process_memory_fraction',
     'Timer', 'MultiTimer', 'multi_tensor_applier', 'DataParallelSampler', 'get_dataloader',
     'switch_virtual_pipeline_parallel_rank', 'TensorDetector', 'load_checkpoint', 'save_checkpoint',
-    'ensure_path_exists', 'disposable'
+    'ensure_path_exists', 'disposable', 'colo_set_cpu_memory_capacity', 'colo_get_cpu_memory_capacity'
 ]
diff --git a/colossalai/utils/memory.py b/colossalai/utils/memory.py
index 12c23c3a0..434e90edd 100644
--- a/colossalai/utils/memory.py
+++ b/colossalai/utils/memory.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ from colossalai.logging import get_dist_logger
 from packaging import version
 
 _GLOBAL_CUDA_MEM_FRACTION = 1.0
+_GLOBAL_CPU_MEM_CAPACITY = -1
 
 
 def _bytes_to_MB(val, decimal=2):
@@ -106,9 +107,8 @@ def colo_device_memory_capacity(device: torch.device) -> int:
     """
     assert isinstance(device, torch.device)
     if device.type == 'cpu':
-        mem_info = _get_cpu_memory_info()
         # In the context of 1-CPU-N-GPU, the memory capacity of the current process is 1/N overall CPU memory.
-        return mem_info.total / gpc.num_processes_on_current_node
+        return colo_get_cpu_memory_capacity() / gpc.num_processes_on_current_node
     if device.type == 'cuda':
         return torch.cuda.get_device_properties(get_current_device()).total_memory * _GLOBAL_CUDA_MEM_FRACTION
 
@@ -152,3 +152,27 @@ def colo_set_process_memory_fraction(ratio: float) -> None:
     global _GLOBAL_CUDA_MEM_FRACTION
     _GLOBAL_CUDA_MEM_FRACTION = ratio
     torch.cuda.set_per_process_memory_fraction(_GLOBAL_CUDA_MEM_FRACTION, get_current_device())
+
+
+def colo_set_cpu_memory_capacity(size: int) -> None:
+    global _GLOBAL_CPU_MEM_CAPACITY
+    mem_info = _get_cpu_memory_info()
+    total_size = mem_info.total
+    if size <= total_size:
+        _GLOBAL_CPU_MEM_CAPACITY = size
+    else:
+        _GLOBAL_CPU_MEM_CAPACITY = total_size
+
+
+def colo_get_cpu_memory_capacity() -> int:
+    """
+    Get the cpu memory capacity. We may not use all of it.
+    Returns:
+        int: _description_
+    """
+    global _GLOBAL_CPU_MEM_CAPACITY
+    if _GLOBAL_CPU_MEM_CAPACITY == -1:
+        mem_info = _get_cpu_memory_info()
+        return mem_info.total
+    else:
+        return _GLOBAL_CPU_MEM_CAPACITY