Spotlight Not Working on Xserve with Large Storage

We're using Xserve (Mac OS X Server 10.6.7) with ~6TB storage as our AFP fileserver. The spotlight searching is not working well, neither at the server console nor client side.
I have tried rebuid the spotlight index with the following commands,
sudo mdutil -i on /
rm -rf /.Spotlight*
sudo mdutil -E /
The spotlight engine seems working. But we can't find things accuractly. It seems that we can find things in the past but not the ones recently added to the server. We have clients from 10.4.11 to 10.6.7, and there is no luck for all.
Does spotlight has storage size limit?
Thank you!

Same fundemental issue here. Config a little diff: Serve 10.5.8 with 5 shares from a mirrored RAID. mix of 10.4.11 and 10.5.8 desks. Of all the shares the find problem exists on ONLY ONE SHARE.
One 10.4.11 system can execute find successfully, while all 10.5.8 and one 10.4.11 do not. Some days all systems return results successfully.
Weird observation 1: CONSOLE sometimes does not display contents of unsearchable volume even though user (admin) has RWE to that share.
Shell into 10.5.8 toggle mdutil against the problematic mounted volume does not resolve the problem. Add/removing volume via Spotlight security does not resolve the problem. Tried rm .Spotlight-V100 from workstation command line does not resolve the problem. Tried rm .Spotlight-V100 from console command line does not resolve the problem.
Weird observation 2: All users same group with RWE set and custom ACL. Privs have been propagated recursively. Correct user and group have ownership to .Spotlight so it's not an issue of write failure while indexing.
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