Thank you for your help!
I'm running windows 2008 R2 64bit with indeed classic theme. It is a virtual machine running on citrix xenserver.
Even worse :)
[root@bsd ~]# uname -a
FreeBSD bsd 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Mar 19 11:21:53 UTC 2011...
We are using FreeBSD bsd 9.0-HEAD-20110308-JPSNAP and samba version 3.5.6
We are experiencing slow read speed over cifs compared to a much higher write speed.
We are using 14 disks in zfs striped mirrors, 10gbit connectors... Raw speed is not the problem. We use SSDs for ZIL and...