Reduce tipset cache size
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Description
**Issue summary**
https://github.com/ChainSafe/forest/pull/3751 introduced a significantly larger cache to cope with performance issues for specific messages. This adds up to 1 GB overhead to Forest runtime, even though such a large cache is seldom required. Lotus is using[ 8k cache](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/blob/7e6b20cd97b925f4ec76463f27adbb503054734d/chain/store/store.go#L48) so we could possibly take some inspiration from their code or figure out a better way.
Using an Adaptive Replacement Cache doesn't help in this case.
The original issue could be reproduced with `forest-tool snapshot compute-state --epoch 3416862 forest_snapshot_mainnet_2023-11-24_height_3416863.forest.car.zst` and [this snapshot](https://forest-archive.chainsafe.dev/mainnet/debug/forest_snapshot_mainnet_2023-11-24_height_3416863.forest.car.zst).
Acceptance criteria - the aforementioned command finishes in few seconds but the cache size is significantly smaller (ideally not bigger than before).
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