ERROR: node block appears to be neither running nor scheduled; will cancel if this condition persists

Hello everyone,

We have a Jenkins job that distributes nunit tests across 400 VMs. Recently, whenever the pipeline reaches the stage where some steps get executed on the VMs parallel, we have started seeing the following error:

Any idea what could cause this error?

Jenkins setup:
Jenkins: 2.440.1
OS: Windows Server 2019 - 10.0
Java: 17.0.3 - Microsoft (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM)

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