Hi Jayson,
Please go throgh the below notes (specially 1223137 & 1269480), may help you
Note 1083358 - VMC: Recommendations for parameter settings
Note 1269480 - Collective Note about Performance of the IPC Configurator
Note 1248104 - Information about size and content of KB runtime versions
Note 1241435 - KB search for subitems is superfluous
Note 1239594 - VMC logging standard is reduced to ERROR
Note 1227157 - buffered access to variant tables
Note 1224955 - VMC performance improvement.
Note 1223137 - Dependencies being executed twice
Note 1170313 - Zero administration memory management in VMC
Note 1139442 - Prevent unnecessary update in CrmUpdateConfiguration
Note 1124499 - Caching of variant tables, direct database calls
Thanks,
Hamendra