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S4's in-flight count climbing wave after wave while the fast servers finish and go idle — equal by count, unequal by load.

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Why counting requests isn't the same as balancing load — an even split by count overloads a slow backend.

How it runs

Round-robin just cycles through the servers in order, giving each the same number of requests regardless of how busy it is. The slow backend (S4) can't drain its queue between waves, so its in-flight work piles up.