livelock /li:v'lok/ n.
A situation in which some critical stage of a task is unable to finish because its clients perpetually create more work for it to do after they have been serviced but before it can clear its queue. Differs from [deadlock] in that the process is not blocked or waiting for anything, but has a virtually infinite amount of work to do and can never catch up.
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