Specifically, isn't the key
statistic I want the bucket count for the most frequently occurring
octet divided by the size of the file divided by 900?
Perhaps. You can derive that easily from the data I gave. What I
don't know right now is if there is any locality to repeated
occurrences of a particular octet.
Would it be possible for you to tell me, across all runs of
900 octets across of all of your files, what is the largest count of
those 6 octets that you see.
Do you mean for each 900 octet chunk of the file (i.e. octets 1-900,
901-1800, ...), or do you want this for every possible 900 octet region in
the file? Either way, this will help answer my locality question. I
need to modify my histogram scanner to handle these windowed views
of the data. I'll try to have some new data for you in the next day
or two (workload permitting).
--lyndon