diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 9775032bfa6..530d98325cc 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -643,6 +643,9 @@ Release 2.1.0-beta - UNRELEASED
     YARN-795. Fair scheduler queue metrics should subtract allocated vCores from 
     available vCores. (ywskycn via tucu) 
 
+    YARN-799. Fix CgroupsLCEResourcesHandler to use /tasks instead of
+    /cgroup.procs. (Chris Riccomini via acmurthy) 
+
 Release 2.0.5-alpha - 06/06/2013
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/util/CgroupsLCEResourcesHandler.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/util/CgroupsLCEResourcesHandler.java
index f83defb1680..3a44afee0ad 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/util/CgroupsLCEResourcesHandler.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/util/CgroupsLCEResourcesHandler.java
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ public class CgroupsLCEResourcesHandler implements LCEResourcesHandler {
     StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("cgroups=");
 
     if (isCpuWeightEnabled()) {
-      sb.append(pathForCgroup(CONTROLLER_CPU, containerName) + "/cgroup.procs");
+      sb.append(pathForCgroup(CONTROLLER_CPU, containerName) + "/tasks");
       sb.append(",");
     }