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One perfectly homogenous server gets 20MB POST with image that then needs to be reencoded/cropped

Other gets tiny GET for CSS.

Boom, now your equal servers are inequally loaded. The beauty of leastconn is that if 1st server is loaded it will just naturally get less connections than the lucky ones that only got easy jobs



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