diff --git a/charts/provider-inventory/Chart.yaml b/charts/provider-inventory/Chart.yaml
index 8ae04a52..1ee3b4d1 100644
--- a/charts/provider-inventory/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/provider-inventory/Chart.yaml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ type: application
 # This is the chart version. This version number should be incremented each time you make changes
 # to the chart and its templates, including the app version.
 # Versions are expected to follow Semantic Versioning (https://semver.org/)
-version: 0.1.1
+version: 0.1.2
 # This is the version number of the application being deployed. This version number should be
 # incremented each time you make changes to the application. Versions are not expected to
 # follow Semantic Versioning. They should reflect the version the application is using.
diff --git a/charts/provider-inventory/templates/deployment-providers-sync.yaml b/charts/provider-inventory/templates/deployment-providers-sync.yaml
index 21cdbfd7..7dfec2f0 100644
--- a/charts/provider-inventory/templates/deployment-providers-sync.yaml
+++ b/charts/provider-inventory/templates/deployment-providers-sync.yaml
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ spec:
               value: {{ .Chart.Name }}-{{ .Values.chain }}-providers-sync
             - name: INTERFACE
               value: "providers-sync"
+              # see comment for details https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/22468#issuecomment-416795256
+              # usually it's recommended to set this variable to number of CPU cores,
+              # but in case of provider inventory we can have a lot of idle time while waiting for messages from providers, so we can benefit from having more threads in the pool
+            - name: UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE
+              value: 64
           resources:
             {{- toYaml .Values.providersSync.resources | nindent 12 }}
           readinessProbe:
diff --git a/charts/provider-inventory/values.yaml b/charts/provider-inventory/values.yaml
index c5a9536f..b0bd0bbf 100644
--- a/charts/provider-inventory/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/provider-inventory/values.yaml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ providersSync:
     limits:
       cpu: 1
       ephemeral-storage: 200Mi
-      memory: 1Gi
+      memory: 2Gi
     requests:
       cpu: 500m
       ephemeral-storage: 100Mi