Traffic Router TPS for HTTPS requests diminishes when reloading certificates

When Traffic Router reloads SSL certificates while processing HTTPS transactions, the TPS drops significantly.

Example Log output during the drop in TPS:

INFO 2016-11-07T14:05:23.363 [pool-2-thread-1] com.comcast.cdn.traffic_control.traffic_router.core.util.Fetcher - GETing: https://to.kabletown.net/api/1.2/cdns/name/test-xc
r/sslkeys.json; timeout is 15000
INFO 2016-11-07T14:05:23.500 New I/O worker #8 com.comcast.cdn.traffic_control.traffic_router.core.config.ConfigHandler - Entered processConfig
INFO 2016-11-07T14:05:23.500 New I/O worker #8 com.comcast.cdn.traffic_control.traffic_router.core.config.ConfigHandler - Exiting processConfig: No json data to process
ERROR 2016-11-07T14:05:24.760 [Thread-5] com.comcast.cdn.traffic_control.traffic_router.core.config.CertificateChecker - No certificate data for https cdn-ds-02 domain ds-02.cdn.kabletown.net.net
ERROR 2016-11-07T14:05:24.760 [Thread-5] com.comcast.cdn.traffic_control.traffic_router.core.config.CertificateChecker - No certificate data for https cdn-ds-01 domain ds-01.cdn.kabletown.net.net
ERROR 2016-11-07T14:05:24.760 [Thread-5] com.comcast.cdn.traffic_control.traffic_router.core.config.CertificateChecker - No certificate data for https cdn-ds-05 domain ds-05.cdn.kabletown.net.net
ERROR 2016-11-07T14:05:24.760 [Thread-5] com.comcast.cdn.traffic_control.traffic_router.core.config.CertificateChecker - No certificate data for https cdn-ds-04 domain ds-04.cdn.kabletown.net.net
ERROR 2016-11-07T14:05:24.760 [Thread-5] com.comcast.cdn.traffic_control.traffic_router.core.config.CertificateChecker - No certificate data for https cdn-ds-03 domain ds-03.cdn.kabletown.net.net
INFO 2016-11-07T14:05:43.399 [pool-17-thread-1] com.comcast.cdn.traffic_control.traffic_router.core.util.Fetcher - GETing: https://to.kabletown.net/api/1.1/cdns/name/test-xcr/dnsseckeys.json; timeout is 30000
INFO 2016-11-07T14:06:23.339 [pool-5-thread-1] com.comcast.cdn.traffic_control.traffic_router.core.monitor.TrafficMonitorWatcher - Loading properties from /opt/traffic_router/conf/traffic_monitor.properties