Hi Team,
We are hosting Github actions runner in a self-hosted mode in our AWS EKS cluster, sometimes I can see the runner pods are just waiting idle for more than 4-5 hours. Queued jobs are assigned to other runner pods and these pods are just idle and consuming overall cluster resources and eventually we have manually clear these idle pods.
Runner version - 2.335.1
ARC version - 0.14.2
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 11:59:19Z INFO RunnerServer] EstablishVssConnection
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 11:59:19Z INFO RunnerServer] Establish connection with 60 seconds timeout.
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 11:59:19Z INFO GitHubActionsService] Starting operation Location.GetConnectionData
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 11:59:19Z INFO GitHubActionsService] Finished operation Location.GetConnectionData
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 11:59:19Z INFO GitHubActionsService] Finished operation Location.GetConnectionData
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 11:59:19Z INFO GitHubActionsService] Finished operation Location.GetConnectionData
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 11:59:20Z INFO BrokerMessageListener] VssConnection created
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 11:59:20Z INFO Terminal] WRITE LINE:
√ Connected to GitHub
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 11:59:20Z INFO Terminal] WRITE LINE:
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 11:59:20Z INFO RSAFileKeyManager] Loading RSA key parameters from file /home/runner/.credentials_rsaparams
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 11:59:20Z INFO RSAFileKeyManager] Loading RSA key parameters from file /home/runner/.credentials_rsaparams
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 11:59:21Z INFO GitHubActionsService] AAD Correlation ID for this token request: Unknown
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 11:59:21Z INFO BrokerMessageListener] Session created.
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 11:59:21Z INFO Terminal] WRITE LINE: Current runner version: '2.335.1'
Current runner version: '2.335.1'
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 11:59:21Z INFO Terminal] WRITE LINE: 2026-06-25 11:59:21Z: Listening for Jobs
2026-06-25 11:59:21Z: Listening for Jobs
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 11:59:21Z INFO JobDispatcher] Set runner/worker IPC timeout to 30 seconds.
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 12:49:30Z INFO RSAFileKeyManager] Loading RSA key parameters from file /home/runner/.credentials_rsaparams
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 12:49:31Z INFO GitHubActionsService] AAD Correlation ID for this token request: Unknown
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 13:39:40Z INFO RSAFileKeyManager] Loading RSA key parameters from file /home/runner/.credentials_rsaparams
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 13:39:40Z INFO GitHubActionsService] AAD Correlation ID for this token request: Unknown
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 14:29:49Z INFO RSAFileKeyManager] Loading RSA key parameters from file /home/runner/.credentials_rsaparams
[RUNNER 2026-06-25 14:29:50Z INFO GitHubActionsService] AAD Correlation ID for this token request: Unknown
Hi Team,
We are hosting Github actions runner in a self-hosted mode in our AWS EKS cluster, sometimes I can see the runner pods are just waiting idle for more than 4-5 hours. Queued jobs are assigned to other runner pods and these pods are just idle and consuming overall cluster resources and eventually we have manually clear these idle pods.
Runner version - 2.335.1
ARC version - 0.14.2