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`

{
    return chainActive.Tip()->GetBlockTime() > GetAdjustedTime() - consensusParams.nPowTargetSpacing * 20;
}
bool PeerHasHeader(CNodeState *state, CBlockIndex *pindex)
{
    if (state->pindexBestKnownBlock && pindex == state->pindexBestKnownBlock->GetAncestor(pindex->nHeight))
        return true;
    if (state->pindexBestHeaderSent && pindex == state->pindexBestHeaderSent->GetAncestor(pindex->nHeight))
        return true;
    return false;
}
/** Find the last common ancestor two blocks have.
 *  Both pa and pb must be non-NULL. */
CBlockIndex* LastCommonAncestor(CBlockIndex* pa, CBlockIndex* pb) {
    if (pa->nHeight > pb->nHeight) {
        pa = pa->GetAncestor(pb->nHeight);
    } else if (pb->nHeight > pa->nHeight) {
        pb = pb->GetAncestor(pa->nHeight);
    }
    while (pa != pb && pa && pb) {
        pa = pa->pprev;
        pb = pb->pprev;
    }
    
    assert(pa == pb);
    return pa;
}
/** Update pindexLastCommonBlock and add not-in-flight missing successors to vBlocks, until it has
 *  at most count entries. */
void FindNextBlocksToDownload(NodeId nodeid, unsigned int count, std::vector<CBlockIndex*>& vBlocks, NodeId& nodeStaller) {