diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index f4b620ce..58b2de35 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 ?? ??? 2007 - 2.2.0-trunk
 -------------------------
 
+ * Only calculate debugging vars when we are debugging (more to come).
+
  * Removed strnlen() calls for non-GNU platforms.
 
 11 May 2007 - 2.2.0-dev1
diff --git a/apache2/re_operators.c b/apache2/re_operators.c
index 50ab6518..db0071f8 100644
--- a/apache2/re_operators.c
+++ b/apache2/re_operators.c
@@ -110,14 +110,17 @@ static int msre_op_rx_execute(modsec_rec *msr, msre_rule *rule, msre_var *var, c
     capture = apr_table_get(rule->actionset->actions, "capture") ? 1 : 0;
 
     /* Warn when the regex captures but "capture" is not set */
-    if (msr->txcfg->debuglog_level >= 3) {
+    if (msr->txcfg->debuglog_level >= 4) {
         int capcount = 0;
         rc = msc_fullinfo(regex, PCRE_INFO_CAPTURECOUNT, &capcount);
         if ((capture == 0) && (capcount > 0)) {
             msr_log(msr, 4, "Ignoring regex captures since \"capture\" action is not enabled.");
         }
         if ((capture == 1) && (capcount == 0)) {
-            msr_log(msr, 3, "Notice. The \"capture\" action is enabled, but the regex does not have explicit captures.");
+            msr_log(msr, 5, "The \"capture\" action is enabled, but the regex does not have explicit captures.");
+        }
+        if ((capture == 0) && (capcount > 0)) {
+            msr_log(msr, 6, "The \"capture\" action is not enabled, but the regex contains captures.");
         }
     }