Ozawa, Schechtman, and I finally wrote up what we know on this question. The estimate is that for every $\epsilon > 0$ there is a constant $C_\epsilon$ so that for every $n$, $\lambda(n)\le C_\epsilon n^{\epsilon}$. The paper can be downloaded from the arXiv.
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