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by xmcqdpt2 487 days ago
I'm not sure you understood the article. You can have a very low load but each task on your queue takes a while to process, in which case you want fair distribution of work.
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The distribution is fair - everything is round-robin, so in the long run each worker receives the same rate of tasks. It's just "lumpy" - sometimes you can get a big batch sent to one worker, then a big batch sent to another worker - but it will all average out.