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`

{
    LOCK(cs_main);
    setBlockIndexCandidates.clear();
    chainActive.SetTip(NULL);
    pindexBestInvalid = NULL;
    pindexBestHeader = NULL;
    mempool.clear();
    mapOrphanTransactions.clear();
    mapOrphanTransactionsByPrev.clear();
    nSyncStarted = 0;
    mapBlocksUnlinked.clear();
    vinfoBlockFile.clear();
    nLastBlockFile = 0;
    nBlockSequenceId = 1;
    mapBlockSource.clear();
    mapBlocksInFlight.clear();
    nQueuedValidatedHeaders = 0;
    nPreferredDownload = 0;
    setDirtyBlockIndex.clear();
    setDirtyFileInfo.clear();
    mapNodeState.clear();
    recentRejects.reset(NULL);
    versionbitscache.Clear();
    for (int b = 0; b < VERSIONBITS_NUM_BITS; b++) {
        warningcache[b].clear();
    }
    BOOST_FOREACH(BlockMap::value_type& entry, mapBlockIndex) {