Application deploy is taking a long time in JBoss EAP 6 installed in a remote directory

Issue

The application deploy is slow in the Host Controller. The same application deploys in less than 5 minutes in the Domain Controller, but it takes more than 40 minutes in the Host Controller servers and timeout.

INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-2) JBAS015876: Starting deployment of "application.war" (runtime-name: "application.war")
ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 307) JBAS013412: Timeout after [2400] seconds waiting for service container stability. Operation will roll back. Step that first updated the service container was 'deploy' at address '[("deployment" => "application.war")]'

Thread dumps indicate that it is executing jandex during the deploy:

"MSC service thread 1-8" #20 prio=5 os_prio=0 tid=0x0000100264037000 nid=0x109d5 runnable [0x000010022356d000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
    at java.util.ArrayList.toArray(ArrayList.java:408)
    at java.util.jar.JarVerifier.mapSignersToCertArray(JarVerifier.java:398)
    at java.util.jar.JarVerifier.processEntry(JarVerifier.java:242)
    at java.util.jar.JarVerifier.update(JarVerifier.java:228)
    at java.util.jar.JarVerifier$VerifierStream.read(JarVerifier.java:482)
    at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:246)
    at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read1(BufferedInputStream.java:286)
    at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:345)
    - locked <0x00000007ac7f0b60> (a java.io.BufferedInputStream)
    at java.io.DataInputStream.readFully(DataInputStream.java:195)
    at java.io.DataInputStream.readFully(DataInputStream.java:169)
    at org.jboss.jandex.Indexer.verifyMagic(Indexer.java:441)
    at org.jboss.jandex.Indexer.index(Indexer.java:697)
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.annotation.ResourceRootIndexer.indexResourceRoot(ResourceRootIndexer.java:100)
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.annotation.AnnotationIndexProcessor.deploy(AnnotationIndexProcessor.java:51)
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:177)
    - locked <0x000000072a202a50> (a org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2064)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1987)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
   Locked ownable synchronizers:
    - <0x00000006c1096d88> (a java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker)

"MSC service thread 1-8" #20 prio=5 os_prio=0 tid=0x0000100264037000 nid=0x109d5 runnable [0x000010022356d000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
    at java.io.FileInputStream.readBytes(Native Method)
    at java.io.FileInputStream.read(FileInputStream.java:233)
    at org.jboss.vfs.VFSUtils.copyStream(VFSUtils.java:439)
    at org.jboss.vfs.VFSUtils.copyStream(VFSUtils.java:418)
    at org.jboss.vfs.VFS.mountZipExpanded(VFS.java:496)
    at org.jboss.vfs.VFS.mountZipExpanded(VFS.java:533)
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentMountProvider$Factory$ServerDeploymentRepositoryImpl.mountDeploymentContent(DeploymentMountProvider.java:107)
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.DeploymentRootMountProcessor.deploy(DeploymentRootMountProcessor.java:93)
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:177)
    - locked <0x0000000796f03750> (a org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2064)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1987)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
   Locked ownable synchronizers:
    - <0x00000006c1096d88> (a java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker)