Large temporary folder

I have just checked on one of those temp folders and it is telling me it is holding 179878 pieces and has a size of 446 GB.

# find temp -type f | wc -l
179878

# du -sh --apparent-size temp
447G    temp

The oldes file is from August 03 2022:

# ls -lt | tail -1
-rw------- 1 root root  182016 Aug  3  2022 blob-1692607602.partial

This certainly does not sound right.