On Monday 17 March 2014 14:46:54 Michael Schuerig wrote: > Any suggestion what (if any!) part of KDE might be causing this? Any > general suggestion for finding the culprit? You could try out whether lsof finds any open file on the nfs share: lsof /media/YOUR_NFS_MOUNT If that doesn't find anything, you can let it repeat every second for a while: lsof -r1 /media/YOUR_NFS_MOUNT Cheers, Johannes