Concurrency - Starvation

About

Starvation is a forms of thread contention.

Starvation describes a situation where a thread is unable :

• to gain regular access to shared resources
• to make progress.

This happens when shared resources are made unavailable for long periods by “greedy” threads.

Articles Related

Example

Suppose:

• an object provides a synchronized method that often takes a long time to return.

If one thread invokes this method frequently, other threads that also need frequent synchronized access to the same object will often be blocked.

Documentation / Reference

• Java Tuto - Starvation and Livelock