[bug]: getting EMFILE: too many open files error in v3

[karthik-philips-ta]

What happened?

##[debug]Failed to download artifact after 1 retries due to EMFILE: too many open files, open 'C:\actions-runner_work\out\coverage\CoverageHtml\k7s.html'. Retrying in 5 seconds... ##[debug]Failed to download artifact after 2 retries due to EMFILE: too many open files, open 'C:\actions-runner_work\out\coverage\CoverageHtml\k4e.html'. Retrying in 5 seconds... ##[debug]Failed to download artifact after 3 retries due to EMFILE: too many open files, open 'C:\actions-runner_work\out\coverage\CoverageHtml\k4e.html'. Retrying in 5 seconds...

What did you expect to happen?

Need fix for this issue , or explaination which this issue happens.

How can we reproduce it?

If the download zip artifact has more than 8000 files

Anything else we need to know?

No

What version of the action are you using?

v3

What are your runner environments?

window

Are you on GitHub Enterprise Server? If so, what version?

2025