The original post: /r/homelab by /u/KooperGuy on 2024-10-12 13:24:27.

I am looking for ideas/guidance on how to best do this testing. Let’s say I have four servers that are configured with all the same physical components and settings except for, say, amount of physical memory installed. What would be the best way to test and compare idle power consumption between them? Is there an OS that would be best suited to install on each? My worry was having too much variability on an OS doing background tasks of some sort randomly (?) which could skew comparisons. I can think of a few ways to tackle that but curious what others think or if there’s good ideas/tools for this kind of testing. Thanks!