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`

unsigned int nBytesPerSigOp = DEFAULT_BYTES_PER_SIGOP;
bool fCheckBlockIndex = false;
bool fCheckpointsEnabled = DEFAULT_CHECKPOINTS_ENABLED;
size_t nCoinCacheUsage = 5000 * 300;
uint64_t nPruneTarget = 0;
int64_t nMaxTipAge = DEFAULT_MAX_TIP_AGE;
bool fEnableReplacement = DEFAULT_ENABLE_REPLACEMENT;
CFeeRate minRelayTxFee = CFeeRate(DEFAULT_MIN_RELAY_TX_FEE);
CAmount maxTxFee = DEFAULT_TRANSACTION_MAXFEE;
CTxMemPool mempool(::minRelayTxFee);
FeeFilterRounder filterRounder(::minRelayTxFee);
struct COrphanTx {
    CTransaction tx;
    NodeId fromPeer;
};
map<uint256, COrphanTx> mapOrphanTransactions GUARDED_BY(cs_main);
map<uint256, set<uint256> > mapOrphanTransactionsByPrev GUARDED_BY(cs_main);
void EraseOrphansFor(NodeId peer) EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(cs_main);
/**
 * Returns true if there are nRequired or more blocks of minVersion or above
 * in the last Consensus::Params::nMajorityWindow blocks, starting at pstart and going backwards.
 */
static bool IsSuperMajority(int minVersion, const CBlockIndex* pstart, unsigned nRequired, const Consensus::Params& consensusParams);
static void CheckBlockIndex(const Consensus::Params& consensusParams);
CScript COINBASE_FLAGS;
const string strMessageMagic = "Bitcoin Signed Message:\n";
namespace {
    struct CBlockIndexWorkComparator
    {
        bool operator()(CBlockIndex *pa, CBlockIndex *pb) const {