It was discovered that at the moment HealthCheckProgram is launched:
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slurmctld: debug: Spawning health check agent for worker-[16,96,174,177,225,245,289,297,310,362]
the readiness probes start failing.
It was also observed that the timeout for HealthCheckProgram is set to 60 seconds, but the execution took 66 seconds.