JBoss EPP 4.3 takes long to start up or startup fails with transaction timeout

Issue

• After adding some large file contents to CMS it runs into a dead loop after restart.

• We are facing issue starting the server when the files in the CMS are growing in numbers. It almost takes 45 to 60 minutes for the server to be up and running, and the console output shows the following output:

  15:25:46,708 INFO [org.jboss.portal.cms.impl.jcr.JCRCMS] Starting JCR CMS 
  15:25:47,614 INFO [org.jboss.portal.cms.hibernate.state.JBossCachePersistenceManager] Pre-loading the PersistenceManager Cache in the background (started)....... 
  15:25:47,778 INFO [org.jboss.portal.cms.hibernate.state.JBossCachePersistenceManager] Pre-loading the PersistenceManager Cache for/wsp_ref (finished)....... 
  15:25:49,356 INFO [org.jboss.portal.cms.hibernate.state.JBossCachePersistenceManager] Pre-loading the PersistenceManager Cache for/wsp_node (finished).......
  15:25:49,375 INFO [org.jboss.portal.cms.hibernate.state.JBossCachePersistenceManager] Pre-loading the PersistenceManager Cache for/version_ref (finished).......
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