System stuck in D state while deleting messages in mutt

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2011.09.22 at 12:49 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 03:56:22PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > My system just got stuck while I was trying to delete old messages in
> > mutt. I'm running the latest git kernel. This happened on my SSD:
> 
> Stuck as in staying in it for a long time, or forever?

Longer than 5 minutes and then I rebooted.

> Are you using Maildir?

Yes. I was trying to delete ~3000 messages in one directory.

I think this issue is a manifestation of the same deadlock that Stefan
reported earlier.

-- 
Markus