Extremely Slow Ed25519 Key Generation (Entropy Source?)

[R0b0t1]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 07:42, r030t1 at gmail.com said:
>
>> It does seem that key generation slows appreciably after exhausting
>> the entropy pool. Is there a way to set the entropy source for
>> internal libgcrypt operations?
>
> Put this into /etc/gcrypt/random.conf
>

Is there no way to change this setting in a non-global manner?

Cheers,
     R0b0t1