Random Access Memory, or RAM, is an important part of any computer system. … Memtests are memory test utilities designed to test your computer’s RAM for errors. There are 86+ memtest programs included by default in most Linux distributions, including Ubuntu 20.04.

How do I use Memtest in Ubuntu?

Here are the steps:

1. While booting press (better hold down) the Shift key to bring the grub menu that looks like the following image: …
2. From the grub menu go to the appropriate option to select i.e. Memory test (memtest86+) and press Enter .
3. Now you will see a blue screen indicating that the memtest is running:

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What is Memtest?

MemTest86 and Memtest86+ are memory test software programs designed to test and stress test an x86 architecture computer’s random access memory (RAM) for errors, by writing test patterns to most memory addresses, reading back the data, and comparing for errors.