drm-i915kms + x11-intel eats out all of the ram and swap but not with x11-scfb

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 8:49 PM Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 07:01:49PM +0200, Jan Beich wrote:
> > ...
> > Unlikely. modesetting reached "good enough" level while X11 is
> > deprecated in favor of Wayland.
>
> X11 is certainly not going anywhere as it mostly works just fine and no
> replacement is needed.  You guys can play with Wayland or whatever the
> next cool kid on the block is called as long as you wish but please let
> it be your pain, not ours.
>
> Deprecating X11, huh.  That's preposterous!


The day will come. Not today, but when upstream stops supporting it...  The
writing is on the wall...

Warner