diff --git a/recipes-support/rng-tools/rng-tools/10-nice.conf b/recipes-support/rng-tools/rng-tools/10-nice.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..de71db4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-support/rng-tools/rng-tools/10-nice.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[Service]
+# Make the priority of the random number generator seeding
+# process nearly the lowest on the system but allow
+# daemons to have lower priority if desired. This makes our
+# system much more responsive during boot.
+Nice=18
diff --git a/recipes-support/rng-tools/rng-tools_%.bbappend b/recipes-support/rng-tools/rng-tools_%.bbappend
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+++ b/recipes-support/rng-tools/rng-tools_%.bbappend
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+FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
+SRC_URI += "file://10-nice.conf"
+
+inherit systemd
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/system/rngd.service.d"
+
+do_install_append() {
+    if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
+        install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/rngd.service.d
+        install -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/10-nice.conf ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/rngd.service.d
+    fi
+}