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A user-space utility for testing the memory subsystem for faults. It is
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portable and should compile and work on any 32- or 64-bit Unix-like system.
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(Yes, even weird, proprietary Unices, and even Mac OS X.) For hardware
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developers, memtester can be told to test memory starting at a particular
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physical address as of memtester version 4.1.0.
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The original source was by Simon Kirby <sim@stormix.com>. The program has
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been rewritten by Charles Cazabon and many additional tests were added to
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help catch borderline memory. He also rewrote the original tests (which
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catch mainly memory bits which are stuck permanently high or low) so that
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they run approximately an order of magnitude faster.
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