what is /tmp/squid.alloc & what is carp exactly?

Hi,

I have recently installed squid-2.1P2 on solaris 7 x86. I am getting a
rather large file called squid.alloc generated in /tmp which seems to be
some sort of letter (either c, f or m) followed by a mac address address.

As far as I am aware I havent compiled with any debugging or am not running
with the debug runtime option - is this file necessary and if so can I just
cp /dev/null over it regularly as it grows very quickly.

Also could someone explain in laypersons terms what CARP is and when Iwould
what it - the faq didnt make clear to me what the purpose of carp was.

many thx,
shin

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