SSH is slower to connect on RHEL 6.6, as compared to RHEL6.5
Issue
SSH connections are slower by 0.15 to 0.2 seconds on RHEL 6.6:
[root@vm-122 ~]# time ssh vm-104 cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
real 0m0.703s
user 0m0.019s
sys 0m0.006s
[root@vm-122 ~]# time ssh vm-65 cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago)
real 0m0.850s
user 0m0.012s
sys 0m0.007s
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
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