Every 15 minutes exactly, in whatever terminal window(s) I have connected to my server, I’m getting these system-wide broadcast message:
Broadcast message from systemd-journald@localhost (Sun 2026-02-15 00:45:00 PST):
systemd[291622]: Failed to allocate manager object: Too many open files
Message from syslogd@localhost at Feb 15 00:45:00 ...
systemd[291622]:Failed to allocate manager object: Too many open files
Broadcast message from systemd-journald@localhost (Sun 2026-02-15 01:00:01 PST):
systemd[330416]: Failed to allocate manager object: Too many open files
Message from syslogd@localhost at Feb 15 01:00:01 ...
systemd[330416]:Failed to allocate manager object: Too many open files
Broadcast message from systemd-journald@localhost (Sun 2026-02-15 01:15:01 PST):
systemd[367967]: Failed to allocate manager object: Too many open files
Message from syslogd@localhost at Feb 15 01:15:01 ...
systemd[367967]:Failed to allocate manager object: Too many open files
The only thing I found online that’s kind of similar is this forum thread, but it doesn’t seem like this is an OOM issue. I could totally be wrong about that, but I have plenty of available physical RAM and swap. I have no idea where to even begin troubleshooting this, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
ETA: I’m not even sure if this is necessarily a bad thing that’s happening, but it definitely doesn’t look good, so I’d rather figure out what it is now before it bites me in the ass later
I have no idea when it started, I just happened to notice it last night. I went to sleep after posting this and left a ssh connection open to see what it did in the morning when I woke up. And when I woke up and checked it out, I found that coincidentally it stopped doing the timer almost exactly as I went to sleep, yet I don’t think I was doing anything that would make that happen. I have no idea why it stopped, but it hasn’t started again either.