On novox the asks of postgres, keycloak and mongodb were judged stale against the controller's compositions, taken away and made again under a new id every pass (8 s), so no answer could count; and every put is a change the node composes again on.
Quick fix: the stale check keeps a record ask whose digest the node's have waits on; the pass skips a put whose value the bucket holds.
Thorough fix beside it (not here, another branch owns the file): the node-engine's composer composes again only when a want's value changed.