diff --git hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/resources/yarn-default.xml hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/resources/yarn-default.xml
index 0c1628e..9eb667d 100644
--- hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/resources/yarn-default.xml
+++ hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/resources/yarn-default.xml
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
in MBs. Memory requests higher than this won't take effect,
and will get capped to this value.
yarn.scheduler.maximum-allocation-mb
- 8192
+ ${yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb}