PM2 Cluster Mode Load Balancing Discrepancy on Windows

[MananShah9]

What's going wrong?

When utilizing PM2 in cluster mode on Windows servers, we observe a significant discrepancy in load balancing behavior compared to its behaviour on Linux. Unlike the expected round-robin load balancing on Linux, all incoming requests are directed to a single instance of the application on Windows,

How could we reproduce this issue?

On windows create a nodejs app that prints instance id. index.js:
`const express = require('express');
const process = require('process');
const app = express();
const port = 3000;

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
const instanceInfo = {
message: 'Hello, this is Express app!',
instanceId: process.pid,
};
res.json(instanceInfo);
});

app.listen(port, () => {
console.log(Server is running on port ${port} with PID ${process.pid});
});`

Start multiple instances using pm2
pm2 start index.js.js -i 4

Call this API parallelly in multiple tabs. You will always get same instance id.

[MananShah9]

I am creating a PR to include this info in the readme.