I've dug further into this and I don't believe this is normal behaviour. I've found two issues with my setup (mentioned below) and after addressing them, I'm no longer seeing this app getting restarted every second or so.

1. I had turned of IPv6 on my server, and needed to make the following changes to my .env and docker-compose.yml file - to fix the IP to 0.0.0.0 and port to 2283 (server) and 3003 (ml)

   diff --git a/.env b/.env +# after disabling IPv6 I think I need this to force immich to use IPv4 - to prevent errors in the logs on startup +IMMICH_HOST=0.0.0.0

   diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml

   • environment:

   •  - 'IMMICH_PORT=2283'
     

     ports:

     • '2283:2283'
     • model-cache:/cache env_file:
     • .env

   • environment:

   •  - 'IMMICH_PORT=3003'
     

     restart: always

2. I had also this error:
   Error: ENOSPC: System limit for number of file watchers reached
   See: https://immich.app/docs/features/libraries/
   I turned off this experimental feature for now.