How does the ThinLinc load-balancer work?

[wilsj]

As of ThinLinc 4.19.0, this knowledge base article is no longer relevant. @tobias did a great job covering the load balancer changes in ThinLinc 4.19.0 in the following community post:

Introducing a more transparent load balancer in ThinLinc 4.19.0

With the recently released ThinLinc 4.19.0, we introduced major updates to the load balancer – the component that decides how users are distributed across cluster agents. The new design is simpler and more predictable, and also easier to understand. My name is Tobias Fahleson, and I’m part of the ThinLinc development team at Cendio. I worked on several aspects of the new load balancer, but I was mainly involved with the rework of the penalty system. What changed Historically, ThinLinc has bal…

Documentation for the overhauled 4.19.0 load balancer is available here:

Clustering — ThinLinc Administrator's Guide