I've disabled transpare huge-pages and enabled huge_pages as given below. Let's see what happens. (I feel like a monkey pressing random buttons trying to turn a light bulb on... and I'm sure the monkey would've had it easier!)
AnonHugePages: 0 kB ShmemHugePages: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 5000 HugePages_Free: 4954 HugePages_Rsvd: 1015 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB -- Saurabh.