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.