I've never seen anyone look into just why Go forces a GC on 2 minute intervals. The code originally appeared in https://codereview.appspot.com/5451057 and there's a bit of discussion on https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/WBlJjT-zu7E.

After reading this, I still don't understand. But I find https://codereview.appspot.com/5451057#msg38 particularly entertaining: there was going to be an environment variable to control the interval, which might have allowed Discord to keep using Go, but Russ Cox shot it down.