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 expired = pool.Expire(GetTime() - age);
    if (expired != 0)
        LogPrint("mempool", "Expired %i transactions from the memory pool\n", expired);
    std::vector<uint256> vNoSpendsRemaining;
    pool.TrimToSize(limit, &vNoSpendsRemaining);
    BOOST_FOREACH(const uint256& removed, vNoSpendsRemaining)
        pcoinsTip->Uncache(removed);
}
std::string FormatStateMessage(const CValidationState &state)
{
    return strprintf("%s%s (code %i)",
        state.GetRejectReason(),
        state.GetDebugMessage().empty() ? "" : ", "+state.GetDebugMessage(),
        state.GetRejectCode());
}
bool AcceptToMemoryPoolWorker(CTxMemPool& pool, CValidationState& state, const CTransaction& tx, bool fLimitFree,