diff --git a/hazelcast/include/hazelcast/client/impl/auto_batcher.h b/hazelcast/include/hazelcast/client/impl/auto_batcher.h
index ef59be666..f7b169e1d 100644
--- a/hazelcast/include/hazelcast/client/impl/auto_batcher.h
+++ b/hazelcast/include/hazelcast/client/impl/auto_batcher.h
@@ -98,6 +98,19 @@ class HAZELCAST_API auto_batcher
         std::atomic<int32_t> num_returned_;
     };
 
+    /**
+     * Tries to satisfy one caller: fast path, otherwise joins (or starts) the
+     * single in-flight batch fetch and completes the promise from its
+     * continuation. A caller that loses the race for an ID from the fresh
+     * batch is retried by posting this function to the executor again, so
+     * every retry starts from an empty stack. The retry must never be
+     * expressed as a nested future (then().unwrap() returning new_id()):
+     * each lost round would add one more unwrap layer to the caller's
+     * future and Boost completes such a chain recursively, which overflowed
+     * the executor thread's stack under contention (issue #1491).
+     */
+    void try_get_id(const boost::shared_ptr<boost::promise<int64_t>>& p);
+
     const int32_t batch_size_;
     const std::chrono::milliseconds validity_;
     util::hz_thread_pool& executor_;
diff --git a/hazelcast/src/hazelcast/client/proxy.cpp b/hazelcast/src/hazelcast/client/proxy.cpp
index 48588732d..7b38348ca 100644
--- a/hazelcast/src/hazelcast/client/proxy.cpp
+++ b/hazelcast/src/hazelcast/client/proxy.cpp
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 #include <unordered_set>
 #include <atomic>
 
+#include <boost/asio/post.hpp>
+
 #include "hazelcast/client/impl/ClientLockReferenceIdGenerator.h"
 #include "hazelcast/client/proxy/PNCounterImpl.h"
 #include "hazelcast/client/spi/ClientContext.h"
@@ -35,6 +37,7 @@
 #include "hazelcast/client/proxy/ReplicatedMapImpl.h"
 #include "hazelcast/client/flake_id_generator.h"
 #include "hazelcast/client/reliable_topic.h"
+
 #include "hazelcast/util/hz_thread_pool.h"
 
 namespace hazelcast {
@@ -1163,6 +1166,24 @@ auto_batcher::new_id()
         }
     }
 
+    auto p = boost::make_shared<boost::promise<int64_t>>();
+    auto f = p->get_future();
+    try_get_id(p);
+    return f;
+}
+
+void
+auto_batcher::try_get_id(const boost::shared_ptr<boost::promise<int64_t>>& p)
+{
+    auto b = block_.load();
+    if (b) {
+        int64_t v = b->next();
+        if (v != INT64_MIN) {
+            p->set_value(v);
+            return;
+        }
+    }
+
     // Slow path: elect a single fetcher; concurrent callers coalesce onto
     // one outstanding batch request (single-flight, no thundering herd).
     boost::shared_future<boost::shared_ptr<block>> fetch;
@@ -1176,7 +1197,8 @@ auto_batcher::new_id()
         if (b2 && b2 != b) {
             int64_t v = b2->next();
             if (v != INT64_MIN) {
-                return boost::make_ready_future(v);
+                p->set_value(v);
+                return;
             }
         }
 
@@ -1209,30 +1231,40 @@ auto_batcher::new_id()
         fetch = fetch_in_progress_;
     }
 
-    return fetch
-      .then(boost::launch::sync,
-            [this, gen](boost::shared_future<boost::shared_ptr<block>> f)
-              -> boost::future<int64_t> {
-                {
-                    std::lock_guard<std::mutex> g(mutex_);
-                    if (fetch_generation_ == gen &&
-                        fetch_in_progress_.valid()) {
-                        fetch_in_progress_ =
-                          boost::shared_future<boost::shared_ptr<block>>();
-                    }
-                }
-                // Rethrows a supplier/server error to every coalesced caller.
-                boost::shared_ptr<block> nb = f.get();
-                int64_t v = nb->next();
-                if (v != INT64_MIN) {
-                    return boost::make_ready_future(v);
-                }
-                // More concurrent waiters than the batch could serve: retry
-                // If a caller that cannot get an ID from the fresh batch
-                // transparently retries (async analogue of Java's for(;;)).
-                return new_id();
-            })
-      .unwrap();
+    // The continuation completes the caller's promise directly. Its own
+    // future is intentionally discarded: nothing waits on it, so a lost
+    // race never leaves a future layer behind (see try_get_id docs).
+    fetch.then(
+      boost::launch::sync,
+      [this, gen, p](boost::shared_future<boost::shared_ptr<block>> f) {
+          {
+              std::lock_guard<std::mutex> g(mutex_);
+              if (fetch_generation_ == gen && fetch_in_progress_.valid()) {
+                  fetch_in_progress_ =
+                    boost::shared_future<boost::shared_ptr<block>>();
+              }
+          }
+          boost::shared_ptr<block> nb;
+          try {
+              // Rethrows a supplier/server error to every coalesced caller.
+              nb = f.get();
+          } catch (...) {
+              p->set_exception(boost::current_exception());
+              return;
+          }
+          int64_t v = nb->next();
+          if (v != INT64_MIN) {
+              p->set_value(v);
+              return;
+          }
+          // More concurrent waiters than the batch could serve: retry from
+          // an empty stack (async analogue of Java's for(;;)). Posting, rather
+          // than calling try_get_id inline, also covers the case where the
+          // next fetch is already complete and a sync continuation would run
+          // immediately on this thread.
+          boost::asio::post(executor_.get_executor(),
+                            [this, p]() { try_get_id(p); });
+      });
 }
 
 } // namespace impl
diff --git a/hazelcast/test/src/HazelcastTests1.cpp b/hazelcast/test/src/HazelcastTests1.cpp
index 8c77cea3e..13518c1a0 100644
--- a/hazelcast/test/src/HazelcastTests1.cpp
+++ b/hazelcast/test/src/HazelcastTests1.cpp
@@ -2583,6 +2583,37 @@ TEST(AutoBatcherTest, concurrencySmokeTest)
     ASSERT_LE(supplier->calls(), NUM_THREADS * IDS_IN_THREAD / 3 + 1000);
 }
 
+// Regression test for the stack overflow reported in issue #1491. A waiter
+// that loses the race for the freshly fetched batch must retry without
+// nesting futures (unwrap-on-unwrap): otherwise the completion cascade
+// recurses once per lost round and overflows the executor thread's stack
+// (macOS gives secondary threads 512 KiB) after a few hundred lost rounds.
+//
+// A slow supplier makes every thread coalesce onto the in-flight fetch. When
+// it completes, the first three continuations win and their threads wake and
+// re-register on the next fetch while the remaining continuations are still
+// being run, i.e. ahead of them. The last loser therefore loses every round
+// until the other threads have used up their quota.
+TEST(AutoBatcherTest, starvedWaiterDoesNotOverflowTheStack)
+{
+    constexpr int NUM_THREADS = 128;
+    constexpr int IDS_IN_THREAD = 100;
+    util::hz_thread_pool pool(4);
+    auto supplier = std::make_shared<sequential_batch_supplier>();
+    impl::auto_batcher batcher(
+      3, std::chrono::milliseconds(600000), pool, [supplier](int32_t s) {
+          std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(1));
+          return (*supplier)(s);
+      });
+
+    auto ids = concurrently_generate_ids(
+      [&]() { return batcher.new_id().get(); }, NUM_THREADS, IDS_IN_THREAD);
+
+    for (int64_t i = 0; i < static_cast<int64_t>(ids.size()); ++i) {
+        ASSERT_TRUE(ids.count(i) > 0) << "Missing ID: " << i;
+    }
+}
+
 TEST(FlakeIdBatchTest, getters)
 {
     impl::id_batch b(5, 7, 9);