git gc takes forever

it didn't even finish

level3@tilde:~/src/personal/.weechat$ cd ~/src/personal/.weechat/;time git gc --aggressive --prune=now
Counting objects: 43011, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects:  26% (11324/42998)
Message from kj8am@tilde on pts/17 at 20:36 ...
stop the git command  26% (11341/42998)
EOFpressing objects:  26% (11377/42998)
error: pack-objects died of signal 998)
error: failed to run repack

real    131m6.752s
user    142m0.343s
sys     55m57.687s


tags: git, git-gc