[CentOS] Excessive NFS operations

> What IS running on the problem machine?  Is it a web server?  Someone's
> Desktop? (If it is a personal Desktop box, what is the person running --
> are they running find all of the time? Or doing some 'lets update 5
> zillion files now' type of task?)  A database server?  Something else?

 It's a plain desktop. User is running standard desktop apps like firefox,
 thunderbird, vmware, and EDA tools.