diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index e039a8ff24..12b9ce0bc0 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -702,6 +702,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
     MAPREDUCE-3775. Change MiniYarnCluster to escape special chars in testname.
     (Hitesh Shah via mahadev)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3765. FifoScheduler does not respect yarn.scheduler.fifo.minimum-
+    allocation-mb setting (Hitesh Shah via mahadev)
+
 Release 0.23.0 - 2011-11-01 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml
index 4b7d45f66a..4b17c1e943 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/dev-support/findbugs-exclude.xml
@@ -161,6 +161,12 @@
     </Or>
     <Bug pattern="IS2_INCONSISTENT_SYNC" />
   </Match>
+  <!-- Inconsistent sync warning - minimumAllocation is only initialized once and never changed -->
+  <Match>
+    <Class name="org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fifo.FifoScheduler" />
+    <Field name="minimumAllocation" />
+    <Bug pattern="IS2_INCONSISTENT_SYNC" />
+  </Match>
 
   <!-- Don't care if putIfAbsent value is ignored -->
   <Match>
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/fifo/FifoScheduler.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/fifo/FifoScheduler.java
index ecdb758923..3d904f3a8c 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/fifo/FifoScheduler.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/fifo/FifoScheduler.java
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ public Allocation allocate(
     }
 
     // Sanity check
-    SchedulerUtils.normalizeRequests(ask, MINIMUM_MEMORY);
+    SchedulerUtils.normalizeRequests(ask, minimumAllocation.getMemory());
 
     // Release containers
     for (ContainerId releasedContainer : release) {
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ private synchronized void nodeUpdate(RMNode rmNode,
         minimumAllocation)) {
       LOG.debug("Node heartbeat " + rmNode.getNodeID() + 
           " available resource = " + node.getAvailableResource());
-      
+
       assignContainers(node);
 
       LOG.debug("Node after allocation " + rmNode.getNodeID() + " resource = "
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/TestFifoScheduler.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/TestFifoScheduler.java
index 349a2cacbe..2cca6f09ad 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/TestFifoScheduler.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/TestFifoScheduler.java
@@ -24,38 +24,22 @@
 
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
-import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.AMResponse;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.Container;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.ContainerState;
-import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.NodeReport;
-import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.recovery.Store;
-import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.recovery.StoreFactory;
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.conf.YarnConfiguration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.rmapp.RMApp;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.rmapp.attempt.RMAppAttempt;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.SchedulerNodeReport;
 import org.apache.log4j.Level;
 import org.apache.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
-import org.junit.After;
-import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 public class TestFifoScheduler {
   private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(TestFifoScheduler.class);
   
-  private ResourceManager resourceManager = null;
-  
-  @Before
-  public void setUp() throws Exception {
-    Store store = StoreFactory.getStore(new Configuration());
-    resourceManager = new ResourceManager(store);
-    resourceManager.init(new Configuration());
-  }
-
-  @After
-  public void tearDown() throws Exception {
-  }
+  private final int GB = 1024;
   
   @Test
   public void test() throws Exception {
@@ -63,7 +47,6 @@ public void test() throws Exception {
     rootLogger.setLevel(Level.DEBUG);
     MockRM rm = new MockRM();
     rm.start();
-    int GB = 1024;
     MockNM nm1 = rm.registerNode("h1:1234", 6 * GB);
     MockNM nm2 = rm.registerNode("h2:5678", 4 * GB);
 
@@ -146,8 +129,48 @@ public void test() throws Exception {
     rm.stop();
   }
 
+  private void testMinimumAllocation(YarnConfiguration conf)
+      throws Exception {
+    MockRM rm = new MockRM(conf);
+    rm.start();
+
+    // Register node1
+    MockNM nm1 = rm.registerNode("h1:1234", 6 * GB);
+
+    // Submit an application
+    RMApp app1 = rm.submitApp(256);
+
+    // kick the scheduling
+    nm1.nodeHeartbeat(true);
+    RMAppAttempt attempt1 = app1.getCurrentAppAttempt();
+    MockAM am1 = rm.sendAMLaunched(attempt1.getAppAttemptId());
+    am1.registerAppAttempt();
+    SchedulerNodeReport report_nm1 = rm.getResourceScheduler().getNodeReport(
+        nm1.getNodeId());
+
+    int checkAlloc =
+        conf.getInt("yarn.scheduler.fifo.minimum-allocation-mb", GB);
+    Assert.assertEquals(checkAlloc, report_nm1.getUsedResource().getMemory());
+
+    rm.stop();
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testDefaultMinimumAllocation() throws Exception {
+    testMinimumAllocation(new YarnConfiguration());
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testNonDefaultMinimumAllocation() throws Exception {
+    YarnConfiguration conf = new YarnConfiguration();
+    conf.setInt("yarn.scheduler.fifo.minimum-allocation-mb", 512);
+    testMinimumAllocation(conf);
+  }
+
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
     TestFifoScheduler t = new TestFifoScheduler();
     t.test();
+    t.testDefaultMinimumAllocation();
+    t.testNonDefaultMinimumAllocation();
   }
 }