Does anyone have any info about this strange repeating broadcast in my Fedora server?

submitted by guynamedzero to linux 21 points | 11 comments

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