Why are builds appearing on built-in node but it's not using the executors assigned (causing high memory issue)

We have been having lots of memory issue with Jenkins (restarting it worked fine for a few days). We even allocated 32G of memory but it still eventually run out.

We have noticed there are many builds that are appearing on the built-in node, but we did restrict those builds to run on agents, which is probably why in the screenshot, it’s not using the 2 executors of the built-in node, but those builds are still appearing on built-in node, as well as on the agent.

We are wondering if this is causing the memory issue and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jenkins setup:
Jenkins: 2.387.1
OS: Linux - 5.4.0-162-generic
Java: 11.0.20.1 - Ubuntu (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM)

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parts of the pipeline run on the controller node regardless of what you’ve specified in your Jenkinsfile. It may be worth looking into what the actual pipeline is here.