Testing memory from within pfSense

Balanga · Jun 24, 2016, 10:34 AM

Is it possible to test memory from within pfSense?

I had been running pfSense for several months until it crashed three months ago, because of what I thought were memory problems.
Having now reassembled the system with the same memory and an update to pfSense, the system appears to be working OK, so I wondered if it's possible to do a hardware check whilst pfSense is running…

Guest · Jun 24, 2016, 10:45 AM

What pfsense version you are using?
32Bit or 64Bit and what version number please?

What hardware you are using as system?

If you are able to realize it I would suggest to boot a Linux life system from USB stick (pen drive) or
a SATA CD/DVD and run then memtest from there, to be sure it is not something affected by the pfSense
system it self.

garyn · May 29, 2017, 7:04 PM

Hi Frank!

I would like to try testing my memory and disk drive this way. I'm running an sg-2440 with internal M600 SATA drive. Since this hardware does not have video and only one extra USB port, what version of pen-linux do you recommend? And, how do I attach to the booted system? I am familiar with using putty and communicating with the sg-2440 and I'm assuming that the pen-linux system you are recommending will need to be pre-setup to use a comm port????

Thanks for the pointers!!!

Gary