What programs do you run in Background?

On my never ending quest to track down the reasons for Logic "Pro"'s quirks and oddities, I'm wondering how many people routinely run other programs in the background?
Has anyone seen conclusive evidence that programs such as Mail, Safari, Dashboard or others will interfere with Logic's performance?
I realize the safest route is, of course, to turn everything off. But how many people actually do that, and how many have real world experience to prove it's necessary?
Just curious.

Often I run Firefox and Preview (LPmanual) in the background. They use about 200MB RAM - but that is the only drawback. No strange events here - so far...
...but I don't run anything when I'm working on music.
Right now I am mostly busy learning Logic this way. And I had dashboard and spotlight disabled as soon as I discovered how. I use a separate disk cataloguer (CatFinder 2.7) to find things - it also shows all system- and invisible files in a search. I don't care much for all the extra services and assistants and animation options, in fact ideally I would like to see a slimmed down, DEDICATED OS X 'pro' version, made for stand-alone (not internetconnected) Pro Audio and Video applications. It could even be installed beside the 'allround' OS X, and selectable in Startup Disk.
In OS 7 to 9, an experienced user could easily adapt the system to it's actual needs, by removeing unnecessary extensions. I do not dare do that yet in OS X, simply since it has so much more seperate components (On my system about 650.000!!, whereas OS 9 held only a few hundreds, including invisibles.)
I think there's a lot in there I do not need. I did delete all printerdrivers except the one I use, but that is about as far as I dare go yet...
regards, Erik.

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