The waitIndex was being pulled from the wrong node in the lock parent which caused the watch to be returned immediately. This caused a continuous set of calls while a client was waiting for a lock.
for i in github.com/BurntSushi/toml github.com/coreos/go-etcd/etcd github.com/coreos/go-log/log github.com/gorilla/context github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics bitbucket.org/kardianos/osext github.com/coreos/go-systemd/journal github.com/coreos/raft code.google.com/p/goprotobuf/proto ; do goven -copy -rewrite $i; done