Rasdaemon is a RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) logging tool. It records memory errors, using the EDAC tracing events. EDAC is a Linux kernel subsystem with handles detection of ECC errors from memory controllers for most chipsets on i386 and x86_64 architectures. EDAC drivers for other architectures like arm also exists. In order to use rasdaemon, you must have mounted a debugfs filesystem. sudo mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug You can add this to fstab: debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs defaults 0 0 To have rasdaemon start and stop with your host, add to /etc/rc.d/rc.local: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.rasdaemon ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.rasdaemon start fi and to /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown (creating it if needed): if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.rasdaemon ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.rasdaemon stop fi