1. A computer implemented method for determining a delay value, comprising: obtaining metric data about at least one of an operating system performance metric and an update flow metric; assigning a weight to the metric data; calculating one or more weighted delay values for each of the metric data, wherein the sum of the weighted values equals a calculated delay value; using the calculated delay value and a queue bias to ascertain an actual delay value; and sending the actual delay value to a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) over MQSeries (LoM) server, which is configured to place the actual delay value between one or more request reads to control a processing pace of the LoM queue.