[CI] GoogleCloudStorageBlobContainerRetriesTests testReadBlobWithReadTimeouts failing

[elasticsearchmachine]

Build Scans:

• elasticsearch-periodic #4531 / openjdk23_java-matrix
• elasticsearch-periodic #4511 / openjdk23_java-matrix
• elasticsearch-periodic #4456 / openjdk23_java-matrix

Reproduction Line:

./gradlew ':plugins:repository-gcs:test' --tests "org.elasticsearch.repositories.gcs.GoogleCloudStorageBlobContainerRetriesTests.testReadBlobWithReadTimeouts" -Dtests.seed=E5A84FCD63279EDC -Dtests.locale=lt-LT -Dtests.timezone=Pacific/Guadalcanal -Druntime.java=23

Applicable branches:
7.17

Reproduces locally?:
N/A

Failure History:
See dashboard

Failure Message:

java.lang.AssertionError: 
Expected: <3>
     but: was <2>

Issue Reasons:

• [7.17] 3 failures in test testReadBlobWithReadTimeouts (0.7% fail rate in 456 executions)
• [7.17] 3 failures in step openjdk23_java-matrix (42.9% fail rate in 7 executions)
• [7.17] 3 failures in pipeline elasticsearch-periodic (18.8% fail rate in 16 executions)

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[elasticsearchmachine]

Pinging @elastic/es-distributed (Team:Distributed)

[pxsalehi]

this will be closed with #115207.