On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 3:39 PM, John Abreau <abre...@gmail.com> wrote: > I recall hearing something a few years ago about memtest functionality being > added to the Linux kernel. Seems to me that making this functionality visible > to something like nagios would be an obvious goal.
I decided to look into this a little. Turns out that its been available for x86 (only) since 2.6.26 (see http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_26). Source can be found in: .../arch/x86/mm/memtest.c It appears to be a fairly primitive memory tester that can be configured to run during the boot sequence. All it does is write to "all" of memory and then check it (with an option to use multiple bit patterns). No testing takes place after the system boots. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
