ENTROPY EXHAUSTION IN JAVA FIPS

Hi all,

I=E2=80=99ve been doing a bunch of performance testing with a code base =
that I=E2=80=99m attached to and I=E2=80=99ve noticed that using the BC =
fips security provider my code exhausts the entropy available on my =
intel haswell linux machines. This is using the 1.0.2 version of the =
library.
Ex.
cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail=20
Shows values under 10 while my code it running.

When I use the system default security provider the available number =
never drops below 3000. I mention the cpu arch because I=E2=80=99ve also =
tried this on a Skylake machine and I do not see the entropy exhaustion =
there and I believe that=E2=80=99s down to intel providing hardware =
random number generation on Broadwell and later.

I=E2=80=99m adding BC as my default provider via
Security.insertProviderAt(new BouncyCastleFipsProvider(), 1);
Pretty much at the entry point to my program. So, my question is; am I =
simply misconfiguring something here? I saw a bug around this in the =
release notes here
https://www.bouncycastle.org/fips-java/RELEASE_NOTES.md
Is this a known issue for 1.0.2 as well?
The current known issues list is blank
https://www.bouncycastle.org/fips-java/BC-FJA-KnownIssues-1.0.2.csv

Thanks,
Jon=