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How are the buckets used?  Are they hashed per rule number or some  
other mechanism?  Nearly all of my states are from the same rule (eg,  
on a mail server for the SMTP port rule).

How should I scale the buckets with the max rules?  The default seems  
to be 4096 rules and 256 buckets.  Should I maintain that ratio?