brent Discovered 2 things.
It does not use any more resources than normal and again Libreoffice is responsive, its just that the sheet locks up.
Lastly, it only does it when I choose "save as". If I just save, its fine, I can go right back to editing. Unfortunately I use most of my spreadsheets as templates, so 99% of the time I'm doing save as.. and using a new date or another customer's name.