Applies to ONTAP 9 CIFS Issue A read activity is much slower then a write activity on a CIFS share End users are reporting low throughput (poor performance) by read activity (slow read) on a CIFS shar...Applies to ONTAP 9 CIFS Issue A read activity is much slower then a write activity on a CIFS share End users are reporting low throughput (poor performance) by read activity (slow read) on a CIFS share Data ONTAP and NetApp monitoring tools reports no relevant information Packet trace (tcpdump) between CIFS-server and -client reports issues on read activity on client side: small payload, packet drop (loss), server side is fine