diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index cd6a4715b4..491cc3d14b 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -253,6 +253,9 @@ Release 2.0.3-alpha - Unreleased
     MAPREDUCE-1700. User supplied dependencies may conflict with MapReduce
     system JARs. (tomwhite)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-4936. JobImpl uber checks for cpu are wrong (Arun C Murthy via
+    jlowe)
+
 Release 2.0.2-alpha - 2012-09-07 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/job/impl/JobImpl.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/job/impl/JobImpl.java
index 7306cda792..bf5e96ce1c 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/job/impl/JobImpl.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/job/impl/JobImpl.java
@@ -1068,9 +1068,13 @@ private void makeUberDecision(long dataInputLength) {
     boolean smallCpu =
         (
             Math.max(
-                conf.getInt(MRJobConfig.MAP_CPU_VCORES, 1), 
-                conf.getInt(MRJobConfig.REDUCE_CPU_VCORES, 1)) < 
-             sysCPUSizeForUberSlot
+                conf.getInt(
+                    MRJobConfig.MAP_CPU_VCORES, 
+                    MRJobConfig.DEFAULT_MAP_CPU_VCORES), 
+                conf.getInt(
+                    MRJobConfig.REDUCE_CPU_VCORES, 
+                    MRJobConfig.DEFAULT_REDUCE_CPU_VCORES)) 
+             <= sysCPUSizeForUberSlot
         );
     boolean notChainJob = !isChainJob(conf);