When I run the Red Hat Crash utility with the kernel crash dump file, I see a lot messages about the file. What are these messages about?

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This is what will be displayed when the crash utility is run with the kernel crash dump file.

# crash vmcore /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64/vmlinux
[...]
      KERNEL: /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64/vmlinux
    DUMPFILE: vmcore  [PARTIAL DUMP]
        CPUS: 1
        DATE: Fri Jan 27 13:50:21 2012
      UPTIME: 03:01:55
LOAD AVERAGE: 0.03, 0.0...

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