You need to set the user-limit-factor to a higher number for the queue 'it'. If you want to let the user get all 77 containers, you should set it to 2.5. From the documentation at http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/CapacityScheduler.html - yarn.scheduler.capacity.<queue-path>.user-limit-factor The multiple of the queue capacity which can be configured to allow a single user to acquire more resources. By default this is set to 1 which ensures that a single user can never take more than the queue’s configured capacity irrespective of how idle the cluster is. Value is specified as a float. ... View more