Well I made these changes and do not have any hard data yet to say whether or not it is helping, or if different values need to be set or what.
Initially, server load did increase a bit, but on the other hand query times on the forum were a bit lower. So, I will keep tweaking it and testing it later when the site begins to hit it's peak usage and see what happens.
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