EUDAT WP7.1.1 has developed scripts to test the scalability of iRODS, the tools can also be used to test the performance of an iRODS installation. Scalability tests tools can be found in EUDAT SVN repository. To start simple upload tests you have to issue following command:
./SingleFileXfer.py -c "iput -f -N 0" -n 3 /tmp/source -d /tempZone/home/rods/dir1
It will upload set of small files from local directory(/tmp/source) to iRODS (/tempZone/home/rods/dir1) by using provided command (iput -f -N 0). More details and result values that can be used for comparison can be found in WP7.1.1 wiki.
The standard installation of iRODS comes with simple test suite as well. It can be started with irodsctl script:
./irodsctl loadtest
Further information about the tests can be found in the ./clients/concurrent-test/README file .