diff --git a/db_stress_tool/db_stress_common.h b/db_stress_tool/db_stress_common.h
index 7e57fdd8f785f2b45dbdcea063593728cced7e27..ec3aa212e3cfeaeda7f89aedcf616fb987cbde0c 100644
--- a/db_stress_tool/db_stress_common.h
+++ b/db_stress_tool/db_stress_common.h
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ DECLARE_uint64(periodic_compaction_seconds);
 DECLARE_uint64(compaction_ttl);
 DECLARE_bool(allow_concurrent_memtable_write);
 DECLARE_bool(experimental_allow_mempurge);
+DECLARE_string(experimental_mempurge_policy);
 DECLARE_bool(enable_write_thread_adaptive_yield);
 DECLARE_int32(reopen);
 DECLARE_double(bloom_bits);
@@ -340,6 +341,18 @@ inline enum ROCKSDB_NAMESPACE::CompressionType StringToCompressionType(
   return ret_compression_type;
 }
 
+inline enum ROCKSDB_NAMESPACE::MemPurgePolicy StringToMemPurgePolicy(
+    const char* mpolicy) {
+  assert(mpolicy);
+  if (!strcasecmp(mpolicy, "kAlways")) {
+    return ROCKSDB_NAMESPACE::MemPurgePolicy::kAlways;
+  } else if (!strcasecmp(mpolicy, "kAlternate")) {
+    return ROCKSDB_NAMESPACE::MemPurgePolicy::kAlternate;
+  }
+  fprintf(stderr, "Cannot parse mempurge policy: '%s'\n", mpolicy);
+  return ROCKSDB_NAMESPACE::MemPurgePolicy::kAlternate;
+}
+
 inline enum ROCKSDB_NAMESPACE::ChecksumType StringToChecksumType(
     const char* ctype) {
   assert(ctype);
diff --git a/db_stress_tool/db_stress_gflags.cc b/db_stress_tool/db_stress_gflags.cc
index f44f508c66b5d66dafaed271ade29213d14d0a51..f1589d78ca2a4d8c749d3c8bf727894de1a33d45 100644
--- a/db_stress_tool/db_stress_gflags.cc
+++ b/db_stress_tool/db_stress_gflags.cc
@@ -329,6 +329,9 @@ DEFINE_bool(allow_concurrent_memtable_write, false,
 DEFINE_bool(experimental_allow_mempurge, false,
             "Allow mempurge process to collect memtable garbage bytes.");
 
+DEFINE_string(experimental_mempurge_policy, "kAlternate",
+              "Set mempurge (MemTable Garbage Collection) policy.");
+
 DEFINE_bool(enable_write_thread_adaptive_yield, true,
             "Use a yielding spin loop for brief writer thread waits.");
 
diff --git a/db_stress_tool/db_stress_test_base.cc b/db_stress_tool/db_stress_test_base.cc
index c2dd8b85bc7168097d629e9afb8dd824416926b6..86b240a6472bd948aa133cc60a943b1aad305ba7 100644
--- a/db_stress_tool/db_stress_test_base.cc
+++ b/db_stress_tool/db_stress_test_base.cc
@@ -2268,6 +2268,8 @@ void StressTest::Open() {
     options_.allow_concurrent_memtable_write =
         FLAGS_allow_concurrent_memtable_write;
     options_.experimental_allow_mempurge = FLAGS_experimental_allow_mempurge;
+    options_.experimental_mempurge_policy =
+        StringToMemPurgePolicy(FLAGS_experimental_mempurge_policy.c_str());
     options_.periodic_compaction_seconds = FLAGS_periodic_compaction_seconds;
     options_.ttl = FLAGS_compaction_ttl;
     options_.enable_pipelined_write = FLAGS_enable_pipelined_write;
diff --git a/tools/db_crashtest.py b/tools/db_crashtest.py
index 10e5091ac65f4c05b30342360105006ec7cfd0ca..b167fd6dd2be0de62d11e922816a54eb363ee03f 100644
--- a/tools/db_crashtest.py
+++ b/tools/db_crashtest.py
@@ -220,7 +220,8 @@ whitebox_default_params = {
 simple_default_params = {
     "allow_concurrent_memtable_write": lambda: random.randint(0, 1),
     "column_families": 1,
-    "experimental_allow_mempurge": 0,
+    "experimental_allow_mempurge": lambda: random.randint(0, 1),
+    "experimental_mempurge_policy": lambda: random.choice(["kAlways", "kAlternate"]),
     "max_background_compactions": 1,
     "max_bytes_for_level_base": 67108864,
     "memtablerep": "skip_list",