diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index 69589d1..7f98667 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 *
 !bin/profile-examples.sh
+!bin/profile-example-memory-usage.sh
 !jupyter_notebook_config.py
 !LightGBM/lib_lightgbm.so
 !LightGBM/LICENSE
diff --git a/Dockerfile-profiling b/Dockerfile-profiling
index fd9f1e9..3cb3411 100644
--- a/Dockerfile-profiling
+++ b/Dockerfile-profiling
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir \
         memray \
         pytest \
+        pytest-memray \
         pytest-profiling \
         snakeviz
 
 COPY bin/profile-examples.sh /usr/local/bin/profile-examples.sh
+COPY bin/profile-example-memory-usage.sh /usr/local/bin/profile-example-memory-usage.sh
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 13f84de..56ea34e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -164,13 +164,27 @@ profiling-image: cluster-image
 			echo "image '${PROFILING_IMAGE}' already exists. To force rebuilding, run 'make profiling-image -e FORCE_REBUILD_PROFILING_IMAGE=1'."; \
 			exit 0; \
 		fi; \
-	fi;
+	fi && \
 	docker build \
 		-t ${PROFILING_IMAGE} \
 		--build-arg BASE_IMAGE=${CLUSTER_IMAGE} \
 		-f Dockerfile-profiling \
 		.
 
+.PHONY: profile-memory-usage
+profile-memory-usage: profiling-image
+	docker run \
+		--rm \
+		--env LIGHTGBM_HOME=/opt/LightGBM \
+		--env PROFILING_OUTPUT_DIR=/profiling-output/memory-usage \
+		-v $$(pwd)/profiling-output:/profiling-output \
+		-v $$(pwd)/LightGBM:/opt/LightGBM \
+		--workdir=/opt/LightGBM \
+		--entrypoint="" \
+		-it ${PROFILING_IMAGE} \
+		/bin/bash -cex \
+			'/bin/bash /usr/local/bin/profile-example-memory-usage.sh'
+
 # https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/AmazonECR/latest/public/docker-push-ecr-image.html
 .PHONY: push-image
 push-image: create-repo
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ac57bf6..f688896 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -179,6 +179,23 @@ make profile
 
 Then navigate to `http://0.0.0.0:8080/snakeviz/%2Fprofiling-output` in your web browser.
 
+### memory profiling
+
+To summarize memory allocations in typical uses of LightGBM, and to attribute those memory allocations to particular codepaths, you can run its examples under `memray` ([link](https://github.com/bloomberg/memray)).
+
+```shell
+make profile-memory-usage
+```
+
+That will generate a bunch of HTML files.
+View them in your browser by running the following, then navigating to `localhost:1234`.
+
+```shell
+python -m http.server \
+    --directory ./profiling-output/memory-usage \
+    1234
+```
+
 ## Useful Links
 
 * https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/pull/3515
diff --git a/bin/profile-example-memory-usage.sh b/bin/profile-example-memory-usage.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fd29656
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/profile-example-memory-usage.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# [description]
+#
+#     Profile memory usage of all of LightGBM's Python examples, using memray.
+
+set -e -u -o pipefail
+
+echo "profiling examples"
+mkdir -p "${PROFILING_OUTPUT_DIR}/bin"
+for py_script in $(find "${LIGHTGBM_HOME}/examples/python-guide" -name '*.py'); do
+    base_filename=$(basename "${py_script}")
+    prof_file=$(echo "${base_filename}" | sed -e 's/\.py/\.bin/g')
+    table_file=$(echo "${base_filename}" | sed -e 's/\.py/-table\.html/g')
+    leak_table_file=$(echo "${base_filename}" | sed -e 's/\.py/-leak-table\.html/g')
+    flamegraph_file=$(echo "${base_filename}" | sed -e 's/\.py/-flamegraph\.html/g')
+    echo "  - ${base_filename}"
+    memray run \
+        -o "${PROFILING_OUTPUT_DIR}/bin/${prof_file}" \
+        "${py_script}" 2>&1 > /dev/null \
+    || true
+    memray table \
+        -o "${PROFILING_OUTPUT_DIR}/${table_file}" \
+        --force \
+        "${PROFILING_OUTPUT_DIR}/bin/${prof_file}"
+    memray table \
+        -o "${PROFILING_OUTPUT_DIR}/${leak_table_file}" \
+        --force \
+        --leaks \
+        "${PROFILING_OUTPUT_DIR}/bin/${prof_file}"
+    memray flamegraph \
+        -o "${PROFILING_OUTPUT_DIR}/${flamegraph_file}" \
+        --force \
+        "${PROFILING_OUTPUT_DIR}/bin/${prof_file}"
+done
+echo "Done profiling examples. See '${PROFILING_OUTPUT_DIR}' for results."