Utility for testing RAM on your mac system. Supports OS X 10.7 and above. This is a contents of dmg image obtained from http://www.memtestosx.org
Site above requires a small fee to be paid in order to download, but this software is licensed under GPLv2 and provided here for free.
Just run ./memtest
In order to test as much memory as possible, it is advised to run memtest in single user mode:
- To boot into single user mode, reboot you mac and hold
command-S
- Mount filesystem
/sbin/mount -uw /
- Go to directory where you cloned the repo
cd /Users/user/this_repo_path/memtest
- Run memtest
./memtest all 3 -l
- this command will run test 3 times, using all available memory and saving output to log file