Bulk issue update: The plugin connectivity is still unstable from what I see in this and other reports. Probably the recent patches in 1.24-1.25 caused some extra instability by getting rid of interlocks between agent connection and termination logic. Apparently it impacts some reconnection scenarios due to the race conditions.
Unfortunately I do not have capacity to work on the plugin in medium-term. So for now I am unassigning issues from myself. Ivan Fernandez Calvo was very kind to take ownership of the plugin and to handle some workload in it. Probably he will have some capacity to review the backlog I was unable to triage.
The loopback device, Could you attach the config file of this Agent? Is it running on the same Jenkins instance? Did you set the Xmx and Xms JVM parameters?
If Xms and Xmx are the java memory parameters i haven't configured anything. I thought Jenkins ssh'd in and started the slave JVM with the correct params.