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I get a lot of memory dumps in dmesg, It seems to me every time the OS is trying to use any more than about 100 MB of RAM weird things are happening.

How can I test RAM on ARM, on running Linux system? For a standard server, I'dI'd run memtest x86, but that's for x86, and is loaded instead of OS.

Here, I've got ARM embedded system (Kirkwood CPU), without console - I can only access it after it boots. I know that test in such environment would be less than perfect, but it's always something.

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  • Is that the same question ? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11640062/how-to-do-memory-test-on-arm-architecture-hardware-something-like-memtest86 – Tolsadus Feb 20 '17 at 14:37
  • Almost, but the answers are useless for me - I can't figure out how to use memtest, unfortunately :/ Seems much more low-level than I need/understand. – StanTastic Feb 20 '17 at 15:51
  • http://superuser.com/questions/352947/ram-test-to-run-on-an-embedded-device might be actually the perfect answer. No 100% sure. Memtest isn't good for what you're trying to do ? – Tolsadus Feb 20 '17 at 15:58
  • Thanks, but not really - I'm not enough of a programmer to modify the code to work for me, and of course I can't run memtest on embedded device :( – StanTastic Feb 24 '17 at 11:32
  • the one I keep seeing everywhere is uboot, but seems only during the boot :/ – Tolsadus Feb 24 '17 at 11:33
  • And it can't be very extensive, this device boots in a few seconds. – StanTastic Feb 24 '17 at 11:36
  • arg... the closest one I found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11640062/how-to-do-memory-test-on-arm-architecture-hardware-something-like-memtest86 but you've probably already seen it – Tolsadus Feb 24 '17 at 11:38

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