A user-space utility for testing the memory subsystem for faults. It is
portable and should compile and work on any 32- or 64-bit Unix-like system.
(Yes, even weird, proprietary Unices, and even Mac OS X.) For hardware
developers, memtester can be told to test memory starting at a particular
physical address as of memtester version 4.1.0.
The original source was by Simon Kirby <sim@stormix.com>. The program has
been rewritten by Charles Cazabon and many additional tests were added to
help catch borderline memory. He also rewrote the original tests (which
catch mainly memory bits which are stuck permanently high or low) so that
they run approximately an order of magnitude faster.
WWW: http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/
- Update to version 4.3.0 and use official (upstream) program name
- Stagify, unmute installation commands, install manpage under MANPREFIX
- Augment port description text while I'm here (per program's webpage)
- Update sysutil/memtest to 4.0.7, which includes the following bugfix:
- fix a bug in the align-to-page logic which may have prevented memtester
from mlock()ing the memory it was trying to test on some systems.
Thanks: Baif Chen.
PR: ports/113660
Submitted by: maintainer (Linh Pham)
- submitter updated this port a couple of times, he would like to become the
maintainer for sysutils/memtest.
PR: ports/97864
Submitted by: maintainer (Linh Pham)
Improve man page documentation on memstest 'all' argument and add
a run time warning about it as well
Prompted by: Denis N. Peplin <info@volginfo.ru>
Approved by: portmgr (self & no objections)
