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=== Memtester ===
[http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/ Memtester] is a userspace utility for testing the memory subsystem for faults. It The good thing is you can test your memory without a part of some distributionsneed to reboot the server, and you can run other programs with it. The bad thing is not all the memory is tested.
=== Installation ===
For Fedora Core:
<pre>yum install memtester</pre>
<pre>emerge memtester</pre>
Invoke memtester as a root, giving an amount of memory it will test as an argument, e.g.: