[GHC] #13164: idle time full GCs (idle cpu usage)

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#13164: idle time full GCs (idle cpu usage)
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        Reporter:  lspitzner         |                Owner:
            Type:  feature request   |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Runtime System    |              Version:  8.0.1
      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:  idle GC
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 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
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Comment (by simonmar):

 I'm open to ideas here.  The tradeoff is that without the idle GC you
 don't get any deadlock detection (`BlockedOnDeadMVar` and friends) when
 the process is idle, so provided you're OK with that then it's fine to use
 `-I0`.

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