private void validateTimedQuota(final TimedQuota timedQuota) throws IOException {
    if (timedQuota.getSoftLimit() < 1) {
      throw new DoNotRetryIOException(new UnsupportedOperationException(
        "The throttle limit must be greater then 0, got " + timedQuota.getSoftLimit()));
    }
  }
Returns a copy of the internal state of <code>this</code>
hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/quotas/ThrottleSettings.java