Vmcore analysis techniques

Initial crash information

Any vmcore analysis will start with the basic header information produced by crash when it starts up.

      KERNEL: /cores/retrace/repos/kernel/x86_64/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64/vmlinux
    DUMPFILE: /cores/retrace/tasks/907889667/crash/vmcore  [PARTIAL DUMP]
        CPUS: 8
        DATE: Wed Apr  1 10:01:58 2015
      UPTI...