Why too many empty sections result in a mess without pagebreak?

Question

When I wrote a template, I found that if there is too many empty sections in a chapter, latex will not produce appropriate page breaks. All these sections will just be listed in a single page. Why does that happen?

\documentclass{report}

\begin{document}
\chapter{chp1}
\section{sec1}
\section{sec1}
\section{sec1}
\section{sec1}
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\section{sec1}
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\end{document}

Because latex tries hard to avoid a page break after the title of a section. Put some dummy text between the sections. — Ulrike Fischer, Nov 28 '14 at 09:50
the "text" @UlrikeFischer refers to can be invisible \mbox{} would be enough. — David Carlisle, Nov 28 '14 at 10:12
the reason for this is given in this answer: Overfull box and broken pagination — barbara beeton, Nov 28 '14 at 16:06

Why too many empty sections result in a mess without pagebreak?

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