diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 9dba9fc1d31..60d92f3323a 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -633,6 +633,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
     MAPREDUCE-3749. ConcurrentModificationException in counter groups.
     (tomwhite)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3762. Fixed default CapacityScheduler configs. (mahadev via
+    acmurthy) 
+
 Release 0.23.0 - 2011-11-01 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/resources/capacity-scheduler.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/resources/capacity-scheduler.xml
index 968ad90160b..71d5fcde681 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/resources/capacity-scheduler.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/resources/capacity-scheduler.xml
@@ -53,9 +53,9 @@
 
   <property>
     <name>yarn.scheduler.capacity.root.default.maximum-capacity</name>
-    <value>-1</value>
+    <value>100</value>
     <description>
-      The maximum capacity of the default queue. A value of -1 disables this.
+      The maximum capacity of the default queue. 
     </description>
   </property>