diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/log4j.properties b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/log4j.properties
index 0214da3ef1f..70e1e68c40b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/log4j.properties
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/log4j.properties
@@ -299,17 +299,6 @@ log4j.appender.EWMA.cleanupInterval=${yarn.ewma.cleanupInterval}
 log4j.appender.EWMA.messageAgeLimitSeconds=${yarn.ewma.messageAgeLimitSeconds}
 log4j.appender.EWMA.maxUniqueMessages=${yarn.ewma.maxUniqueMessages}
 
-
-# Fair scheduler requests log on state dump
-log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.FairScheduler.statedump=DEBUG,FSLOGGER
-log4j.additivity.org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.FairScheduler.statedump=false
-log4j.appender.FSLOGGER=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
-log4j.appender.FSLOGGER.File=${hadoop.log.dir}/fairscheduler-statedump.log
-log4j.appender.FSLOGGER.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-log4j.appender.FSLOGGER.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %p %c: %m%n
-log4j.appender.FSLOGGER.MaxFileSize=${hadoop.log.maxfilesize}
-log4j.appender.FSLOGGER.MaxBackupIndex=${hadoop.log.maxbackupindex}
-
 #
 # Fair scheduler state dump
 #