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Starvation occurs when microtasks continuously queue themselves. Prevent via batching, inserting setImmediate breaks, or rearchitecting promise recursion.
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Tick-based starvation: a loop that adds microtasks (Promise callbacks) faster than they run can prevent the event loop from ever reaching I/O or timer callbacks. Example: a Promise chain that resolves and immediately creates another Promise. Fix by breaking the loop with setImmediate() to yield to the event loop between iterations.
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