GitHub Actions Runners Accumulate as Orphaned Instances When Process Exits Unexpectedly
GitHub Actions self-hosted runners fail to deregister when the runner process exits or crashes, causing orphaned instances to accumulate in Docker environments with restart policies until the runner limit is hit.
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