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Runtime errors

WARNING: Number of errors: N, skipped probes: M
Errors and/or skipped probes occurred during this run.

division by 0
The script code performed an invalid division.

aggregate element not found
An statistics extractor function other than @count was invoked on an aggregate that has not had any values accumulated yet. This is similar to a division by zero.

aggregation overflow
An array containing aggregate values contains too many distinct key tuples at this time.

MAXNESTING exceeded
Too many levels of function call nesting were attempted.

MAXACTION exceeded
The probe handler attempted to execute too many statements.

kernel/user string copy fault at 0xaddr
The probe handler attempted to copy a string from kernel or user space at an invalid address.

pointer dereference fault
There was a fault encountered during a pointer dereference operation such as a target variable evaluation.