After starting from command line bitocoind, it can require minutes to have bitocoind to be real responsive, for example:
`$ ./bitcoin-cli stop`
`error: {"code":-28,"message":"Activating best chain..."}`

In such situation, I had sometimes to "kill -9" bitcoind to stop it.
I would like to be able to stop bitcoind in clean way.

p.s.:
`$ uname -a`
`Darwin isghe.local 14.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.4.0: Thu May 28 11:35:04 PDT 2015; root:xnu-2782.30.5~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64`

int nLimit = MAX_HEADERS_RESULTS;
        LogPrint("net", "getheaders %d to %s from peer=%d\n", (pindex ? pindex->nHeight : -1), hashStop.ToString(), pfrom->id);
        for (; pindex; pindex = chainActive.Next(pindex))
        {
            vHeaders.push_back(pindex->GetBlockHeader());
            if (--nLimit <= 0 || pindex->GetBlockHash() == hashStop)
                break;
        }
        
        
        
        
        nodestate->pindexBestHeaderSent = pindex ? pindex : chainActive.Tip();
        pfrom->PushMessage(NetMsgType::HEADERS, vHeaders);
    }
    else if (strCommand == NetMsgType::TX)
    {
        
        
        if (GetBoolArg("-blocksonly", DEFAULT_BLOCKSONLY) && (!pfrom->fWhitelisted || !GetBoolArg("-whitelistrelay", DEFAULT_WHITELISTRELAY)))
        {
            LogPrint("net", "transaction sent in violation of protocol peer=%d\n", pfrom->id);
            return true;
        }
        vector<uint256> vWorkQueue;
        vector<uint256> vEraseQueue;
        CTransaction tx;
        vRecv >> tx;
        CInv inv(MSG_TX, tx.GetHash());
        pfrom->AddInventoryKnown(inv);