Is there a way to make Intellij faster if you are asking it to do everything?

Hi team,

I am using one IntelliJ window to serve two tomcat wars, and another IntelliJ window to run an sbt project that is also listening for web requests. Then I open up another IntelliJ window that I connect to a database and then typing slows down. I understand that I am doing quite a bit. Is there a setting I could tweak to make my set up run faster? Is what I am doing normal usage?

Alternatively I could have the tomcat server run outside of IntelliJ but it is super convenient to have package and run commands in the IntelliJ app.

Thanks for the hard work, IntelliJ rocks!