Severe performance degradation

Hi all, We recently upgraded to the Dec2016 release but had to downgrade immediately after experiencing a severe degradation in performance. I have attached 4 graphs of our performance monitoring (of the last 3 days). It should be fairly obvious when we upgraded and when we downgraded again. We're still looking into the root cause but it appears that it has something to do with memory leaks when using aggregations on varchar colums with a high cardinality. Has anyone else experienced the same performance degradation? Is this a known (regression) bug? Best regards, Dennis Pallett