Intellij IDEA and Maven, disable reading pom.xml on every small change, even without a save

Question

This is causing intellij to become slow and freeze up which is annoying as ****.

It appears as if it analyses other files similar to pom.xml causing freezes on other

Answer 1

You can disable option in

Settings -> Maven -> Importing -> Import Maven projects automatically

(see intellij docs)

And then everytime you want to reimport the pom do it in Maven Projects tool window