Order creation is extremely slow (5-20 minutes)

Hi, I have a B2B site that needs to manage large orders. It is for a clothing distributor, so with size/color variations.
I can have an order of 50-60 products that, with variations, can generate 3.000-6.000 “pieces” in the cart (I mean, if product A red size S has 5 items and blu size S has 3 items, I count 8 “pieces” in total).
Each product can have from 4-5 (single color, multiple sizes) to 50-100 variations (multiple colors for each size).
There is no payment gateway as it is for reseller that will pay later.
as I click on “place order” button, the circle starts rotating and it remains that way for a time that may vary from 4-5 minutes to even 20 minutes.
The confirmation email arrive a couple of minutes before circle finish to rotate and lead to the confirmation page.

I already tried to:
– disable all the plugins except Woocommerce
– run it with twenty-twentytwo theme
– use add_filter( ‘woocommerce_defer_transactional_emails’,’__return_true’ );
– disable ajax on woocommerce > settings > products > general
– change server, it was on a good one, now is on a high performance server but the problem persists.

Any idea on why it happens and how to solve it?
Thanks

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