You'll see these on some applications. Add these to /etc/sysctl.conf and run sysctl -f /etc/sysctl.conf or switch to single user mode and back. machdep.unaligned_print=1 machdep.unaligned_fix=1 machdep.unaligned_sigbus=0 > pid 507 (mysqld): unaligned access: va=0x12053fda3 pc=0x12035c6d0 > ra=0x12035c7f8 sp=0x1fffff450 op=ldl > > [...] > > a lot more of them