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What does this dtrace error mean?

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Mar 15, 202610454 views
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Problem

When running on my late-2010 Macbook Pro (10.6.7) I get repeated instances of this error: What's the cause of this and how do I fix it?

Error Output

dtrace: error on enabled probe ID 5 (ID 19507: io:mach_kernel:buf_strategy:start): illegal operation in action #3 at DIF offset 0

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The errors are getting output to stderr, and can be filtered out by running the command as such: This does have the side effect of filtering out any other errors that might come up. I've found it to be an ok tradeoff, in that it's made my iotop outp…

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