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Depending on how the map function works, the load balancer could have an easy or difficult time (ie. mapping sessions based on identifiers like IP addresses or doing it "randomly") figuring out which session goes where. And as the name goes, this in turn affects the amount of traffic in any particular web server. In a situation like this the goal seems to be balancing the trade-off between server and load balancer.