saholton,
The so called "fix" elaborated in the KB is NOT a fix, but a simple tool that will promote some (that are absolutely required) of the counters from L3 to L1. By this way, VC will start treating those counters, "like other" L1 counters and collect stats (5mins, 30mins etc) for it. On the DB growth side, please threat it as any other L1 counter.
Hope I clarified all your questions.
Regards
Diwakar