as per this discussion: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jmeter-dev/201405.mbox/%3CCAH9fUpYOgA_TatgwF8K2EmzwcL0DSSkUiR0GZ9vVQVEJL9oN5A%40mail.gmail.com%3E SSL eager initialization is a performance issue (that is nearly a blocker for embedded resources download and particularly Bug 52073).
Created attachment 33566 [details] Patch fixing this issue
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 58099 ***
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/3834