diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 66e8a07..31ee69f 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ except:
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='warcprox',
-        version='2.4b2.dev149',
+        version='2.4b2.dev150',
         description='WARC writing MITM HTTP/S proxy',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox',
         author='Noah Levitt',
diff --git a/tests/test_warcprox.py b/tests/test_warcprox.py
index 7185255..f054d69 100755
--- a/tests/test_warcprox.py
+++ b/tests/test_warcprox.py
@@ -1224,11 +1224,17 @@ def test_limit_large_resource(archiving_proxies, http_daemon, warcprox_):
     soon as it passes the 200000 limit. As warcprox read() chunk size is 65536,
     the expected result size is 65536*4=262144.
     """
+    urls_before = warcprox_.proxy.running_stats.urls
+
     url = 'http://localhost:%s/300k-content' % http_daemon.server_port
     response = requests.get(
         url, proxies=archiving_proxies, verify=False, timeout=10)
     assert len(response.content) == 262144
 
+    # wait for processing of this url to finish so that it doesn't interfere
+    # with subsequent tests
+    wait(lambda: warcprox_.proxy.running_stats.urls - urls_before == 1)
+
 def test_method_filter(
         warcprox_, https_daemon, http_daemon, archiving_proxies,
         playback_proxies):