# Whenever the pool drops to 128 it should very quickly be refilled watch -n 0.1 cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail # For extra fun, try this both with and without netrng running: cat /dev/random | pv -bart > /dev/null # For me this measures 13KB/s with netrng running # but only small numbers of B/s rapidly dropping towards zero with netrng stopped