Learn: Starvation
Starvation: a thread is ready to work but never gets the resource or CPU time, because others keep taking it. Unlike a deadlock, the program still moves; one part just never does.
Classic example: a lock that is not fair. Monitor (lock) doesn't promise first come, first served, so under heavy use one thread can keep losing.
In .NET servers, a related problem is thread-pool starvation: blocking calls (.Result, .Wait()) hold pool threads, so new requests wait.
Read more: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/threading/managed-threading-best-practices
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