LWN: Comments on "Dave Täht RIP"

Thank you, Dave.

tb — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 22:12:54 +0000

This is such sad news.

I hadn't heard his name in a few years, but it showing up today made me realize I owe my career to Dave. If it wasn't for his bufferbloat work, I wouldn't have gotten big into Linux, and I probably wouldn't be working on bpf today.

Dave, you will be missed, but you won't be forgotten.

RIP

Sesse — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:55:15 +0000

RIP Dave. Only someone as practical-minded as you could change your surname from Taht to Täht to avoid people misspelling it “That” :-) And only someone as persistent and stubborn as you could make fq_codel and CAKE as widespread as they are—not by coding them, but for the infinite education and outreach.

Rip Dave

LizzyLinux — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:55:27 +0000

this guy sounds cool.
Too bad he passed so soon.

Rest In Peace, Dave!

unixbhaskar — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:48:06 +0000

Ah, the world gets a little dimmer 😞

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zoobab — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:35:09 +0000

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=site%3Alwn.net+mtaht&...

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rsidd — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 10:53:48 +0000

> Searching through LWN's archives will turn up many references to his work

He also posted many comments under the user name mtaht. Always helpful and informative.

RIP Dave...

pomac — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 09:22:31 +0000

I still remember the first time i met him, there was a test you had to pass before he'd talk to you... Something that i keep bringing up at times as well, it was funny and unexpected at the time =)

RIP

paulj — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 09:13:47 +0000

You moved the needle. Thanks Dave.

Rest in peace, Dave

koenkooi — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 07:17:10 +0000

I hope he's found a nice tropical beach to rest on in his afterlife! Running into him at various conferences was always a relaxed experience and he never forgot to mention things like "Hey, that new board you're working on, make sure you have BQL support in your network drivers!"
His work on fq_codel, CAKE and other things are not just useful for my home network, they also helped tremendously at my previous job, optimizing ceph itself is practically impossible, but you can optimize the the network it runs on!

Thank you Dave

wsy — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 05:23:06 +0000

Dave's work changed my understanding of latency, bandwith and queues. What a great loss.

RIP Dave

csamuel — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 23:10:19 +0000

Oh this is sad, Dave reached out to us via our user support system when he saw a note about us using fq_codel because he wanted to know how it was going. He had a very illuminating discussion with a colleague of mine and it was so kind of him to share his knowledge with us.

oh no!

dankamongmen — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:19:52 +0000

dave was a super friendly and informative guy. his passion for reducing bufferbloat was inspiring. i'm glad CAKE and BBR got into the wild and proven before he passed.

Battlemesh

zoobab — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:13:55 +0000

Dave gave a talk about Starlink at Battlemesh in 2019, we had some good beers:

https://media.freifunk.net/v/lightning-talk-starlink

Rest in peace in networking heaven.

Life is short, he left too early.

Very sad. RIP Dave

lwnuser573 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:10:32 +0000

Very sad. RIP Dave