i am starting to hate eclipse

I hate to say it, but that may be the case from a long time user.
i'll get to my main issue..but first a complaint about the eclipse.org
website.

Trying to find where to post a question regarding issues with eclipse
is quite cumbersome at eclipse.org due to:
-the number of news groups are numerous, but apparently most relating
to the project itself, and none seems to clearly indicate where users
should go to ask questions related to usability
-if you forget your login or password, you must apply for a new one.
for users that do not often have questions, this is often the case.
-if you enter an invalid login or password, you can't try again unless
you clear out your cookies
-if you try to leave feedback or use their "write" link after the above
occurs, and you spend a while composing a nice long list of concerns
with the site, when you finally go to submit, it tells you "The
newsserver does not accept the message". why the F have the form
available there in the first place????

anyway, my problem.
ECLIPSE is SLOW! i am using 3.1 on a large scale project. At times,
even if i highlight text to cut & paste, it will pause for what seems
forever (more like 5 to 20 seconds, but seems like forever). it
appears eclipse is always trying to do SOMETHING in the background that
is causing it to slow significantly. trying to do context sensitive
lookup of methods is impossible at times. this is REALLY
counterproductive, as what should takes 1 minutes, takes about 5
mintues with all these pauses. i have gone thru and tried disabling
all that i could find...but to no avail

Is there a way to turn all background process off and just use eclipse
for as an editor?

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