[racket] garbage collection and process idling

Any thoughts on how, by default, timing of garbage collection cycles is 
affected by whether the process is "idle".

For example, if non-GC threads are all waiting on events, might the 
thread with GC be more likely to trigger a GC at that idle time, rather 
than when some threads are working?

Reason I ask... In benchmarking a large PLT Scheme 4.2.5 server process, 
I noticed that median total page time is 0.2 second faster when requests 
are sparse, compared to when requests are fired one after the other .  
There are explanations for this other than GC, but this prompted me to 
think about whether GC could be involved, and whether perhaps I should 
be manually triggering GCs when I think the server would otherwise be 
idle anyway for that fraction of a second.

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