maven 3.1.1 crashes on GC overhead limit exceeded with millions of org.eclipse.aether.graph.DefaultDependencyNode

maven: 3.1.1
jdk: 1.7.0_25 Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 23.25-b01, mixed mode)

the error message is:

[INFO] Building buy-client 1.1.8-o2o630-SNAPSHOT
[INFO]