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You do need to actually use buffer cache and shared pool to use HugePages. If you were on Red Hat 5, you would have a line for reserved HugePages:
HugePages_Total: 1030
HugePages_Free: 696
HugePages_Rsvd: 691
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
The above is from a RHEL5 box about 10 minutes after the box is rebooted and instance started. As long as HugePages_Free is only slightly larger than HugePages_Rsvd, it's good. In RHEL4, you just keep using SGA and the HugePages_Free number will decrease.
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