I guess I am bucking the curve....60+ (70 at times) processes all the time not a bit of lag!
Race
Do not kid yourself, or anyone else, your system is taking a performance hit with that many processes running. It is impossible for it not to. Whether you get lagged or not is not the gating factor. It is but one of many different things that can manifest when you have that many processes running in the background.
If you know anything about how the operating system works, then you would understand why there is a performance hit.