I thought that was AIX (others?) specific but that's a good question. Seems like I read that AIX does that but not positive. Actually, I know for sure that it doesn't on Linux because it RESERVES hugepages but doesn't use them - you can watch the free hugepages count go down as Oracle claims memory I believe. I'll try to verify on my end however. Chris -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Josh Collier Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 10:34 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: 10.2.0.4 / New Hugepages / JDBC Thin connections slow connect ? When you have enabled huge pages, and verified that your SGA is going into the huge pages pool, Doesn't the SGA get pre-paged regardless of this particular parameter (pre_page_sga)? The way I understand it, with huge pages enabled, the SGA is loaded(paged-in) completely on instance startup. Do I have a misunderstanding? Josh C -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l