Slow fileshare transfer speeds with Lion Server

I'm running Lion Server on a Mac Mini and using SMB to share files between the server and both Windows and Mac machines. I can't figure out why I can only get 2 Mb/s transfer speeds between the server and the other machines. I'm quite certain I'm not limited by my network and the disk write speeds clearly exceed 2 Mb/s. Any suggestions for boosting this speed or is this an actual limit of SMB or Lion Server?

Have a similar issue on a Macbook Pro mi 2010 : since the 10.7.3 update, Samba file sharing (to access a FreeBsd server over the LAN) is extremely slow. I mean I can't work normally since the update (3 weeks).
I've reported the bug to Apple. I think it is a bug limited to some machine version (because other mac in the office do not have the issue)

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Here is the contents of what appears to be the first file read, that is for SSL enabled sites:
``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
This is "0000_any_443.conf:"
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## Default Virtual Host Configuration
NameVIrtualHost *:443
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "/path/to/the/docs"
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SSLCertificateKeyFile "/sslcerts/certs/*.DOMAIN.COM.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.key.pem"
SSLCertificateChainFile "/path/*.DOMAIN.COM.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.chain.pem"
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So.. my questions are:
Where in the .confs do I add what I need from your above items? Would it go each of the site docs that I need? I am really not sure what apple is doing here.
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So I rejigged my setup a tad. My RAID 0 is still FW800, the second drive is back on FW400 on the back port, and the third is USB 2.0 on the back as well.
It's interesting to note that I saw the FW800 taking a bandwidth hit if the FW400 drives was being read/written to. For example, if I was averaging 50-60MB/sec on the FW800 drives and copy something large to the FW400 drive, each drive averages out to about 30/MB second, roughly half the FW800 speed I was getting. The USB while the slowest didn't cause any slowness on the FW drives.
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*MyBook 2TB in a RAID 0 configuration: Firewire 800*
Results 75.42
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Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.5 (9F33)
Physical RAM 16384 MB
Model MacPro3,1
Drive Type WD My Book
Disk Test 75.42
Sequential 80.92
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Uncached Read 53.66 15.70 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 136.76 68.73 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 70.62
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*MyBook 1TB on Firewire 400*
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System Version 10.5.5 (9F33)
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Random 43.78
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