Well I am not having any issues with it Jtoomim ...
of course I am a hardware guy and am running around 24 gb of ram on the system with the node on it ...
I am not running skimpy systems and don't intend to ...
but that being said I have my reasons for running v17 and am happy with my decision to do so ...

Please stop trying to intimidate everyone to jumping onto your code.

Respectfully

BB