jenkins linux slave intermittently looses connection to master while build execution and the build fails with the below error

ERROR: Build step failed with exception
Also: hudson.remoting.Channel$CallSiteStackTrace: Remote call to $slave_name
at hudson.remoting.Channel.attachCallSiteStackTrace(Channel.java:1693)
at hudson.remoting.UserResponse.retrieve(UserRequest.java:310)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:908)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:986)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:975)
at hudson.tasks.ArtifactArchiver.perform(ArtifactArchiver.java:243)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepCompatibilityLayer.perform(BuildStepCompatibilityLayer.java:81)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:20)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:744)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:690)
at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.post2(Build.java:186)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.post(AbstractBuild.java:635)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1749)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:429)

what is the solution to this problem?
It occurs intermittently and a lot of our builds on different slaves are failing with this error.
Can someone help in checking this?
our slaves connect to the master through SSH