If you are
really worried about it, another approach would be to carefully, and very, very cautiously (i.e., take days /weeks between adjusting each setting) modify some of the tasks like "delete aged discovery data", or 'deleted aged history data" You have to be
very careful about what you change there for what means "aged" in your environment. For some companies, change one of the tasks to daily may make perfect sense... but that's rare. very
very rare. If you have a task that is currently "delete aged after 180 days", maybe you could change that to 120--then wait a month and see how that affects your environment.
Essentially--don't go nuts in there. You could inadvertently tell your system "delete just about every client record, because we had a long holiday weekend". That's never any fun to recover from. (it is recoverable...just not fun to explain to management that it'll take a week or so to get back to normal)
Carefully research every setting you might want to modify, and what the ramifications might be for
your environment, and how you use the CM system. Every company is different in their processes and procedures--what makes perfect sense at 1 company would be let's-work-for-days-to-recover-from-this-oops-generating at another.