How many bytes (or what information) are sent to the server when I send an instance from LocalScript?

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#1

I have to define a strategy to avoid performance loss when communicating between local script and server.
During my game, I move an object with the mouse.
Inside the local script, I change the object’s CFrame according to the mouse position.
But to confirm the object’s final position (when the user left-clicks), I need to do some validations, such as if this object is inside a valid area.
I wanted to pass the object instance as an argument to the server:

Result = RemoteFunction:InvokeServer("MyFunction", MeshPart)

My question is: when I pass the instance of a MeshPart as an argument, what exactly is sent?

  • Is only one reference key sent (few bytes)?
  • Or are all instance properties sent (a huge block of information)?
How to audit exactly how many and which bytes are being transmitted between the client/server?
#2

only one reference key is sent

if you send a local instance to the server, the server will see it as nil

#3

Not true, if this instance was created before by the server