Rendering of Categories tree is very slow in Categories Navigation Portlet

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.1.30 EE GA3, 6.1.X EE, 6.2.X EE, 7.0.0 M3
• Fix Version/s: 6.1.X EE, 6.2.2 CE GA3 , 6.2.X EE, 7.0.0 M1
• Component/s: WCM > Navigation
• Labels:
  • ee-ts
  • liferay-fixpack-user-interface-10-6130
  • liferay-fixpack-user-interface-15-6210
• Branch Version/s:
  6.2.x, 6.1.x
• Backported to Branch:
  Committed
• Story Points: 10
• Fix Priority: 4
• Git Pull Request: https://github.com/brianchandotcom/liferay-portal/pull/19638

Reproduction Steps:

1) Generate a lot of categories (ie: 500)
2) Put a Categories Navigation portlet to a page

Rendering of Categories takes more than 10 seconds.