To enable deep sleep on Ubuntu 21.04 (kernel 5.11)
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Find the following line in the /etc/default/grub file:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash"
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Change it to:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash mem_sleep_default=deep”
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Run
sudo update-grub
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Reboot
a. To verify, run the following from the terminal:
cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
b. If the output iss2idle [deep]
then deep sleep is enabled (note the brackets are on “deep”)