semantic's behavior

[Spencer Marks]

I was wondering if there was a way to make semantic work less
frequently. The extremely frequent hashmark progress bar is 
distracting and make typing sluggish - even on reasonably fast
machine. 

I've tried setting 
Jde Auto Parse Buffer Interval: to 1000
and then disabling it entirely. 
I've also tried turning off imenu, 
but none of these steps seem to effect when semantic's is invoked. 

Thanks in advance,
Spencer