I saw these errors also since we moved to 1.544.2 LTS. We didn't had these in 1.532.x LTS

I also see this errors.
Jenkins ver. 1.577

I am experiencing same issue intermittently in Jenkins version 1.565.1

To anyone else with this problem: this error indicates that the slave process died unexpected.
See https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Remoting+issue

In my case, the slave JVM terminates because the slave machine ran out of memory; and I get an error log file in the slave's FS root.

Same issue starting to happen on my system - Jenkins ver. LTS 1.580.3, any solution?
BTW: If I rebuild the same failed build again after few minutes, the build is passe successfully.

04:15:12 Wiping out workspace first.
04:15:13 FATAL: java.io.IOException: Unexpected EOF
04:15:13 hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: java.io.IOException: Unexpected EOF
04:15:13 at hudson.remoting.Request.abort(Request.java:295)
04:15:13 at hudson.remoting.Channel.terminate(Channel.java:814)
04:15:13 at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:69)
04:15:13 at ......remote call to mydtbld0147.hpeswlab.net(Native Method)
04:15:13 at hudson.remoting.Channel.attachCallSiteStackTrace(Channel.java:1356)
04:15:13 at hudson.remoting.Request.call(Request.java:171)
04:15:13 at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:751)
04:15:13 at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:969)
04:15:13 at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:958)
04:15:13 at hudson.FilePath.deleteContents(FilePath.java:1173)
04:15:13 at hudson.plugins.git.extensions.impl.WipeWorkspace.beforeCheckout(WipeWorkspace.java:28)
04:15:13 at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:981)
04:15:13 at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:488)
04:15:13 at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1257)
04:15:13 at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:622)
04:15:13 at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86)
04:15:13 at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:528)
04:15:13 at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1745)
04:15:13 at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
04:15:13 at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:89)
04:15:13 at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:240)
04:15:13 Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unexpected EOF
04:15:13 at hudson.remoting.ChunkedInputStream.readUntilBreak(ChunkedInputStream.java:99)
04:15:13 at hudson.remoting.ChunkedCommandTransport.readBlock(ChunkedCommandTransport.java:33)
04:15:13 at hudson.remoting.AbstractSynchronousByteArrayCommandTransport.read(AbstractSynchronousByteArrayCommandTransport.java:34)
04:15:13 at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:48)

This might solve the issue.

To summarize, run ethtool -K eth0 sg off on the slave as root.

It seems like was resolved by setting off the scatter-gather