Add to onboarding reproduction logs (castorini#2520)

xpbowler · Jun 5, 2024 · 98def6f · 98def6f
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diff --git a/docs/experiments-msmarco-passage.md b/docs/experiments-msmarco-passage.md
@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ In this case, Lucene creates what is known as an **inverted index**.
 
 Upon completion, we should have an index with 8,841,823 documents.
 The indexing speed may vary; on a modern desktop with an SSD, indexing takes a couple of minutes.
+On the new MacBook Pro M3 Laptop, if you only have 8GB memory, you might encounter an issue where the threads are forced to abort before indexing
+finishes. This is likely caused by JVM allocating more memory than available on the system, thus causing too much memory swapping without actively
+garbage collecting. To mitigate this issue, you may need to modify run.sh to change the -Xms option to 2GB and -Xmx to 6GB.
 
 
 ## Retrieval
@@ -491,3 +494,4 @@ The BM25 run with default parameters `k1=0.9`, `b=0.4` roughly corresponds to th
 + Results reproduced by [@RohanNankani](https://github.com/RohanNankani) on 2024-05-17 (commit [`a6ea614`](https://github.com/castorini/anserini/commit/a6ea6147fa68bca2a8f869479dee28d620d93dbd))
 + Results reproduced by [@IR3KT4FUNZ](https://github.com/IR3KT4FUNZ) on 2024-05-20 (commit [`97c39f`](https://github.com/castorini/anserini/commit/97c39fd35f2ed1c95a425812d719083d9b088583))
 + Results reproduced by [@bilet-13](https://github.com/bilet-13) on 2024-05-26 (commit [`97c39fd`](https://github.com/castorini/anserini/commit/97c39fd35f2ed1c95a425812d719083d9b088583))
++ Results reproduced by [@SeanSong25](https://github.com/SeanSong25) on 2024-06-03 (commit [`ae6ee3f`](https://github.com/castorini/anserini/commit/ae6ee3f89a94049904ff509393976620385688b6))
diff --git a/docs/start-here.md b/docs/start-here.md
@@ -388,3 +388,4 @@ If you think this guide can be improved in any way (e.g., you caught a typo or t
 + Results reproduced by [@RohanNankani](https://github.com/RohanNankani) on 2024-05-17 (commit [`a6ea614`](https://github.com/castorini/anserini/commit/a6ea6147fa68bca2a8f869479dee28d620d93dbd))
 + Results reproduced by [@IR3KT4FUNZ](https://github.com/IR3KT4FUNZ) on 2024-05-19 (commit [`97c39f`](https://github.com/castorini/anserini/commit/97c39fd35f2ed1c95a425812d719083d9b088583))
 + Results reproduced by [@bilet-13](https://github.com/bilet-13) on 2024-05-26 (commit [`97c39fd`](https://github.com/castorini/anserini/commit/97c39fd35f2ed1c95a425812d719083d9b088583))
++ Results reproduced by [@SeanSong25](https://github.com/SeanSong25) on 2024-06-03 (commit [`ae6ee3f`](https://github.com/castorini/anserini/commit/ae6ee3f89a94049904ff509393976620385688b6))