diff --git a/src/Makefile b/src/Makefile
index f86ea859ceccf0171c3288f0236474ad7dbd1002..43922c2de59720d0aaa6a374926611c08c78bad6 100644
--- a/src/Makefile
+++ b/src/Makefile
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ QUIET_CC = @printf '    %b %b\n' $(CCCOLOR)CC$(ENDCOLOR) $(SRCCOLOR)$@$(ENDCOLOR
 QUIET_LINK = @printf '    %b %b\n' $(LINKCOLOR)LINK$(ENDCOLOR) $(BINCOLOR)$@$(ENDCOLOR);
 endif
 
-OBJ = adlist.o ae.o anet.o dict.o redis.o sds.o zmalloc.o lzf_c.o lzf_d.o pqsort.o zipmap.o sha1.o ziplist.o release.o networking.o util.o object.o db.o replication.o rdb.o t_string.o t_list.o t_set.o t_zset.o t_hash.o config.o aof.o pubsub.o multi.o debug.o sort.o intset.o syncio.o cluster.o crc16.o endianconv.o slowlog.o scripting.o bio.o rio.o rand.o
+OBJ = adlist.o ae.o anet.o dict.o redis.o sds.o zmalloc.o lzf_c.o lzf_d.o pqsort.o zipmap.o sha1.o ziplist.o release.o networking.o util.o object.o db.o replication.o rdb.o t_string.o t_list.o t_set.o t_zset.o t_hash.o config.o aof.o pubsub.o multi.o debug.o sort.o intset.o syncio.o cluster.o crc16.o endianconv.o slowlog.o scripting.o bio.o rio.o rand.o memtest.o
 BENCHOBJ = ae.o anet.o redis-benchmark.o sds.o adlist.o zmalloc.o
 CLIOBJ = anet.o sds.o adlist.o redis-cli.o zmalloc.o release.o
 CHECKDUMPOBJ = redis-check-dump.o lzf_c.o lzf_d.o
diff --git a/src/redis.c b/src/redis.c
index 07a38b215cb79151e93bb0e58673b9a823e9f26b..60d45b5e6fd927b137ec979839bca418d4d0c14c 100644
--- a/src/redis.c
+++ b/src/redis.c
@@ -2231,7 +2231,8 @@ void usage() {
     fprintf(stderr,"Usage: ./redis-server [/path/to/redis.conf] [options]\n");
     fprintf(stderr,"       ./redis-server - (read config from stdin)\n");
     fprintf(stderr,"       ./redis-server -v or --version\n");
-    fprintf(stderr,"       ./redis-server -h or --help\n\n");
+    fprintf(stderr,"       ./redis-server -h or --help\n");
+    fprintf(stderr,"       ./redis-server --test-memory <megabytes>\n\n");
     fprintf(stderr,"Examples:\n");
     fprintf(stderr,"       ./redis-server (run the server with default conf)\n");
     fprintf(stderr,"       ./redis-server /etc/redis/6379.conf\n");
@@ -2287,6 +2288,8 @@ void setupSignalHandlers(void) {
     return;
 }
 
+void memtest(size_t megabytes, int passes);
+
 int main(int argc, char **argv) {
     long long start;
     struct timeval tv;
@@ -2308,6 +2311,17 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
             strcmp(argv[1], "--version") == 0) version();
         if (strcmp(argv[1], "--help") == 0 ||
             strcmp(argv[1], "-h") == 0) usage();
+        if (strcmp(argv[1], "--test-memory") == 0) {
+            if (argc == 3) {
+                memtest(atoi(argv[2]),10000);
+                exit(0);
+            } else {
+                fprintf(stderr,"Please specify the amount of memory to test in megabytes.\n");
+                fprintf(stderr,"Example: ./redis-server --test-memory 4096\n\n");
+                exit(1);
+            }
+        }
+
         /* First argument is the config file name? */
         if (argv[j][0] != '-' || argv[j][1] != '-')
             configfile = argv[j++];