It takes from 5 (shortest) to almost 40 (longest) minutes for `bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo` to return an _empty_ dict. I noticed this first whilst configuring the Statoshi branch of Bitcoin Core, but went back to install Bitcoin Core (git clone -b v0.11.2 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git) to find the same results.

```
20:10 pi@raspinode:~/bin/bitcoin.orig $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo
{
}
20:12 pi@raspinode:~/bin/bitcoin.orig $ bitcoin-cli getinfo
{
    "version" : 110200,
    "protocolversion" : 70002,
    "blocks" : 393193,
    "timeoffset" : 0,
    "connections" : 12,
    "proxy" : "",
    "difficulty" : 113354299801.47113037,
    "testnet" : false,
    "relayfee" : 0.00005000,
    "errors" : ""
}
20:17 pi@raspinode:~/bin/bitcoin.orig $
```

Raspberry Pi 2 - 1GB memory - 4 core CPU 900MHz - Blockchain on SanDisk Ultra Android microSDXC 128GB up to 80 MB/Sec Class 10

All other RPC calls through bitcoin-cli are answered promptly and correctly.
See also issue on jlopp/statoshi https://github.com/jlopp/statoshi/issues/19#issuecomment-171350739

static CUpdatedBlock latestblock;
extern void TxToJSON(const CTransaction& tx, const uint256 hashBlock, UniValue& entry);
void ScriptPubKeyToJSON(const CScript& scriptPubKey, UniValue& out, bool fIncludeHex);
double GetDifficulty(const CBlockIndex* blockindex)
{
    
    
    if (blockindex == NULL)
    {
        if (chainActive.Tip() == NULL)
            return 1.0;
        else
            blockindex = chainActive.Tip();
    }
    int nShift = (blockindex->nBits >> 24) & 0xff;
    double dDiff =
        (double)0x0000ffff / (double)(blockindex->nBits & 0x00ffffff);
    while (nShift < 29)
    {
        dDiff *= 256.0;
        nShift++;
    }
    while (nShift > 29)
    {
        dDiff /= 256.0;
        nShift--;
    }
    return dDiff;
}
UniValue blockheaderToJSON(const CBlockIndex* blockindex)