diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 67dfc50e1f..e0d5652b0a 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
+    MAPREDUCE-3862.  Nodemanager can appear to hang on shutdown due to lingering
+    DeletionService threads (Jason Lowe via bobby)
 
     MAPREDUCE-3680. FifoScheduler web service rest API can print out invalid 
     JSON. (B Anil Kumar via tgraves)
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/DeletionService.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/DeletionService.java
index 38eff3591f..7d4de873e3 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/DeletionService.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/DeletionService.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import static java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.*;
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience.Private;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileContext;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.UnsupportedFileSystemException;
@@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ public void init(Configuration conf) {
       sched = new ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor(YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_NM_DELETE_THREAD_COUNT,
           tf);
     }
+    sched.setExecuteExistingDelayedTasksAfterShutdownPolicy(false);
     sched.setKeepAliveTime(60L, SECONDS);
     super.init(conf);
   }
@@ -92,14 +94,27 @@ public void init(Configuration conf) {
   @Override
   public void stop() {
     sched.shutdown();
+    boolean terminated = false;
     try {
-      sched.awaitTermination(10, SECONDS);
+      terminated = sched.awaitTermination(10, SECONDS);
     } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+    }
+    if (terminated != true) {
       sched.shutdownNow();
     }
     super.stop();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Determine if the service has completely stopped.
+   * Used only by unit tests
+   * @return true if service has completely stopped
+   */
+  @Private
+  public boolean isTerminated() {
+    return getServiceState() == STATE.STOPPED && sched.isTerminated();
+  }
+
   private class FileDeletion implements Runnable {
     final String user;
     final Path subDir;
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/TestDeletionService.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/TestDeletionService.java
index abaad224d4..28b51c0632 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/TestDeletionService.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/TestDeletionService.java
@@ -27,12 +27,15 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileContext;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.UnsupportedFileSystemException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.conf.YarnConfiguration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.DefaultContainerExecutor;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.DeletionService;
 
 
 import org.junit.AfterClass;
 import org.junit.Test;
+import org.mockito.Mockito;
+
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 public class TestDeletionService {
@@ -107,12 +110,18 @@ public void testAbsDelete() throws Exception {
         del.delete((Long.parseLong(p.getName()) % 2) == 0 ? null : "dingo",
             p, null);
       }
+
+      int msecToWait = 20 * 1000;
+      for (Path p : dirs) {
+        while (msecToWait > 0 && lfs.util().exists(p)) {
+          Thread.sleep(100);
+          msecToWait -= 100;
+        }
+        assertFalse(lfs.util().exists(p));
+      }
     } finally {
       del.stop();
     }
-    for (Path p : dirs) {
-      assertFalse(lfs.util().exists(p));
-    }
   }
 
   @Test
@@ -137,14 +146,35 @@ public void testRelativeDelete() throws Exception {
         del.delete((Long.parseLong(p.getName()) % 2) == 0 ? null : "dingo",
             p, baseDirs.toArray(new Path[4]));
       }
+
+      int msecToWait = 20 * 1000;
+      for (Path p : baseDirs) {
+        for (Path q : content) {
+          Path fp = new Path(p, q);
+          while (msecToWait > 0 && lfs.util().exists(fp)) {
+            Thread.sleep(100);
+            msecToWait -= 100;
+          }
+          assertFalse(lfs.util().exists(fp));
+        }
+      }
     } finally {
       del.stop();
     }
-    for (Path p : baseDirs) {
-      for (Path q : content) {
-        assertFalse(lfs.util().exists(new Path(p, q)));
-      }
-    }
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testStopWithDelayedTasks() throws Exception {
+    DeletionService del = new DeletionService(Mockito.mock(ContainerExecutor.class));
+    Configuration conf = new YarnConfiguration();
+    conf.setInt(YarnConfiguration.DEBUG_NM_DELETE_DELAY_SEC, 60);
+    del.init(conf);
+    del.start();
+    try {
+      del.delete("dingo", new Path("/does/not/exist"));
+    } finally {
+      del.stop();
+    }
+    assertTrue(del.isTerminated());
+  }
 }