# Quota not being reset?

**URL:** <https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/quota-not-being-reset/406>\
**Category:** Tokens, ratelimits, quotas & registration\
**Created:** [April 8, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/quota-not-being-reset/406 "2019-04-08T15:35:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![cimar](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@cimar](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/cimar)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/quota-not-being-reset/406/3 "2019-04-08T17:28:37Z")

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Ah! OK. The QGIS console is throwing an OverQueryLimit error, even though I’ve metered the querying to 20 calls per minute in settings, so I don’t think I should be hitting the rate limit. If I haven’t actually hit my quota, what’s going on here?

Here’s the error trace:

> OverQueryLimit: Wait for 9 seconds  
> OverQueryLimit: Wait for 1 seconds  
> OverQueryLimit: Wait for 0 seconds  
> Traceback (most recent call last):  
> File “C:/Users/USER/AppData/Roaming/QGIS/QGIS3\profiles\default/python/plugins\ORStools\core\client.py”, line 158, in request  
> result = self.\_get\_body(response)  
> File “C:/Users/USER/AppData/Roaming/QGIS/QGIS3\profiles\default/python/plugins\ORStools\core\client.py”, line 214, in \_get\_body  
> error  
> ORStools.utils.exceptions.OverQueryLimit: 429 (Rate limit exceeded)
> 
> During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):  
> File “C:/Users/USER/AppData/Roaming/QGIS/QGIS3\profiles\default/python/plugins\ORStools\core\client.py”, line 158, in request  
> result = self.\_get\_body(response)  
> File “C:/Users/USER/AppData/Roaming/QGIS/QGIS3\profiles\default/python/plugins\ORStools\core\client.py”, line 214, in \_get\_body  
> error  
> ORStools.utils.exceptions.OverQueryLimit: 429 (Rate limit exceeded)
> 
> During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):  
> File “C:/Users/USER/AppData/Roaming/QGIS/QGIS3\profiles\default/python/plugins\ORStools\proc\isochrones\_proc.py”, line 249, in processAlgorithm  
> response = clnt.request(provider[‘endpoints’][self.ALGO\_NAME], params)  
> File “C:/Users/USER/AppData/Roaming/QGIS/QGIS3\profiles\default/python/plugins\ORStools\core\client.py”, line 172, in request  
> return self.request(url, params, first\_request\_time, requests\_kwargs, post\_json)  
> File “C:/Users/USER/AppData/Roaming/QGIS/QGIS3\profiles\default/python/plugins\ORStools\core\client.py”, line 170, in request  
> time.sleep(sleep\_for)  
> ValueError: sleep length must be non-negative
> 
> Execution failed after 64.52 seconds

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