diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go
index b08bab132d..7797e9b0c2 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ func getSupportedSubsystems() map[subsystem]bool {
 	supportedSubsystems := map[subsystem]bool{
 		&cgroupfs.MemoryGroup{}: true,
 		&cgroupfs.CpuGroup{}:    true,
-		&cgroupfs.PidsGroup{}:   true,
+		&cgroupfs.PidsGroup{}:   false,
 	}
 	// not all hosts support hugetlb cgroup, and in the absent of hugetlb, we will fail silently by reporting no capacity.
 	supportedSubsystems[&cgroupfs.HugetlbGroup{}] = false