CTM - Global customizing settings - Best practices

Colleagues
We are in the process of optimizing the performance of our CTM engine. We are using SAP recommended standard settings for live cache accesses. Currently we are operating in asynchronous mode with packet size of 1000.
Here are other settings we have
Packet size for creating orders = 500
Packet size for creating pegging relationships = 5000
Packet sie for order selection = 500
Please advice if you have experimented with any other settings for improved performance of CTM engine.
Also, if you can provide any other suggestions that can help in improving performance of CTM, it would be appreciated.
REgards,
Pavan

Hi pavan,
The setting for creating orders and creating pegging relationships
is found Ok as per Standard.
But in our engagement, we used 50 for order selection which gave
good results. The value indicates for how many location products a
liveCache request can be started at one time. The default value is
50 location products as per SAP recommendation.
Regards
R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

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