diff --git a/dask.yaml b/dask.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b8f12a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dask.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# disable dask's profiling
+distributed:
+  worker:
+    profile:
+      interval: 2h
+      cycle: 10h
+      low-level: false
diff --git a/dask_profiling_coiled/run_profile.py b/dask_profiling_coiled/run_profile.py
index ede7a35..c41eed5 100644
--- a/dask_profiling_coiled/run_profile.py
+++ b/dask_profiling_coiled/run_profile.py
@@ -85,22 +85,30 @@ def main():
     print(f"Waiting for {n_workers} workers...")
     client.wait_for_workers(n_workers)
 
-    def disable_gc():
-        # https://github.com/benfred/py-spy/issues/389#issuecomment-833903190
-        import gc
+    # def disable_gc():
+    #     # https://github.com/benfred/py-spy/issues/389#issuecomment-833903190
+    #     import gc
 
-        gc.disable()
-        gc.set_threshold(0)
+    #     gc.disable()
+    #     gc.set_threshold(0)
 
-    print("Disabling GC on scheduler")
-    client.run_on_scheduler(disable_gc)
+    # print("Disabling GC on scheduler")
+    # client.run_on_scheduler(disable_gc)
+
+    # def enable_gc_debug():
+    #     import gc
+
+    #     gc.set_debug(gc.DEBUG_STATS | gc.DEBUG_COLLECTABLE | gc.DEBUG_UNCOLLECTABLE)
+
+    # print("Enabling GC debug logging on scheduler")
+    # client.run_on_scheduler(enable_gc_debug)
 
     print("Here we go!")
 
     # This is key---otherwise we're uploading ~300MiB of graph to the scheduler
     dask.config.set({"optimization.fuse.active": False})
 
-    # test_name = "cython-nogc-200workers"
+    test_name = "cython-gc-maybe-noprofiling-shuffle"
     with (
         distributed.performance_report(f"results/{test_name}.html"),
         pyspy_on_scheduler(
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index 4670fe4..c44c33d 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -28,5 +28,6 @@ dependencies:
       # - git+https://github.com/gjoseph92/scheduler-profilers.git  # TODO this conflicts with --install-option for distributed, using postBuild instead
       # - git+https://github.com/gjoseph92/dask-noop.git
 variables:
-  DASK_DISTRIBUTED__WORKER__PROFILE__INTERVAL: 2h
-  DASK_DISTRIBUTED__WORKER__PROFILE__CYCLE: 10h
\ No newline at end of file
+  DASK_CONFIG: dask.yaml
+  # DASK_DISTRIBUTED__WORKER__PROFILE__INTERVAL: 2h
+  # DASK_DISTRIBUTED__WORKER__PROFILE__CYCLE: 10h
diff --git a/make-coiled-env.sh b/make-coiled-env.sh
index f3404e9..0f87d5f 100755
--- a/make-coiled-env.sh
+++ b/make-coiled-env.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,30 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# Install py-spy separately so it doesn't conflict with Cythonized distributed
+# Install py-spy separately so it doesn't conflict with Cythonized distributed.
+# Also add dask config.
+
+# HACK: Coiled offers no easy way to add auxiliary data files---or a dask config---in software environments,
+# so we generate a post-build shell script that has the contents of `dask.yaml` within itself, and writes
+# those contents out when executed.
+OUT_CONFIG_PATH="~/.config/dask/dask.yaml"
+YAML_CONTENTS=$(<dask.yaml)
 cat > postbuild.sh <<EOF
 #!/bin/bash
 
 python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/gjoseph92/scheduler-profilers.git@8d59e7f8b2ab59e22f0937557fefe388eac6ea61
+
+OUT_CONFIG_PATH=$OUT_CONFIG_PATH
+# ^ NOTE: no quotes, so ~ expands (https://stackoverflow.com/a/32277036)
+mkdir -p \$(dirname \$OUT_CONFIG_PATH)
+
+cat > \$OUT_CONFIG_PATH <<INNER_EOF
+$YAML_CONTENTS
+INNER_EOF
+
+echo "export DASK_CONFIG=\$OUT_CONFIG_PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
+
+echo "Wrote dask config to \$OUT_CONFIG_PATH:"
+cat \$OUT_CONFIG_PATH
 EOF
 coiled env create -n profiling --conda environment.yml --post-build postbuild.sh
 rm postbuild.sh