Install memtester-4.2.1-1.el6.x86_64 and memtest86+-4.10-2.el6.x86_64 (or updated versions). # memtest-setup # memtester 500M # memtester 10G 2 Check output. Also look at the 'sar' program. Files in /var/log/sa. Example run: sar -f /var/log/sa19