We have TFS setup to do integration builds after every check in.  The entire setup is working perfectly well. The only issue is that at times the build fails.  Since I marked unit tests in TFS Scrip to “Continue On Error = true”, the build is marked as partially successful a few times a day.  The error that is logged into build log states the following – “The drop share directory  could not be accessed” when copying unit tests results into the drop share directory.  I searched for similar errors on the inter webs, and there were only two causes listed – incorrect user rights for build service or Windows Time service issue. I knew that neither one was the problem, since build completes successfully most of the time.  I finally looked in the Event Log, mostly just to cover the possible issues, and I found the following error there, logged a few times each day.

Source: srv
Event ID: 2017
Level: Error
The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the server reached the configured limit for nonpaged pool allocations.

I searched for possible solutions, and found this excellent post by Alan LaMielle.

So, I implemented the fix recommended, and the build start succeeding every time!  I just wish that thee two problems were linked together somewhere.  Well, now they are!

Thanks.