We’ve been having some problems with one of our NFS mounts losing connection occasionally. Unfortunately, every time we lose the connection all of our slave processes hang, even though we don’t use that mount for anything to do with deadline or the jobs that are running. Can you think of any reason why deadline would be pinging unnecessary mounts? Is that expected behavior?
This is using Deadline 7.2.0.18
I bet it’s for disk usage reporting.
I don’t know how to test this though. Any ideas? Just make a server and unplug it while Deadline’s running?
That would probably work, as long as it’s not a plug-and-play server that will fail nicely. 
If you have a linux machine you could try using strace to see what locations are being opened/accessed, but that won’t necessarily help you track it down unless you do some extreme logging.