O Red Hat Bug 1130239 - Diferença no desempenho de curvas entre RHEL6 e RHEL7 :
The
libcurllibrary used an unnecessarily long blocking delay for actions with no active file descriptors, even for short operations. This meant that some actions, such as resolving a host name using/etc/hosts, took an artificially long time to complete. The blocking code inlibcurlhas now been modified so that the initial delay is short, and gradually increases until an event occurs. Fastlibcurloperations now complete more quickly.
Instale a nova versão do curl a partir da fonte:
git clone https://github.com/bagder/curl.git
cd curl
yum install libtool
./buildconf
./configure
make
make install