On Tue, 2021-04-13 at 13:02 -0400, sakib.sajal@... wrote:

collect-data template can run arbitrary commands/scripts
on a regular basis and logs the output in a file.

See oe-core for more details:
    edb7098e9e buildstats.bbclass: add functionality to collect build system stats

Signed-off-by: Sakib Sajal <sakib.sajal@...>
Signed-off-by: Randy MacLeod <Randy.MacLeod@...>
---
 config.json | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/config.json b/config.json
index 5bfa240..c43d231 100644
--- a/config.json
+++ b/config.json
@@ -87,6 +87,13 @@
                 "SANITYTARGETS" : "core-image-full-cmdline:do_testimage core-image-sato:do_testimage core-image-sato-sdk:do_testimage"
             }
         },
+ "collect-data" : {
+ "extravars" : [
+ "BB_HEARTBEAT_EVENT = '10'",
+ "BB_LOG_HOST_STAT_ON_INTERVAL = '1'",
+ "BB_LOG_HOST_STAT_CMDS = 'oe-time-dd-test.sh 100'"
+ ]
+ },

Is the template used anywhere? I can't remember if we support nesting templates in which 
case this is useful, or not?

Cheers,

Richard