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`

pfrom->PushMessage(NetMsgType::GETDATA, vGetData);
                }
            }
        }
        CheckBlockIndex(chainparams.GetConsensus());
    }
    else if (strCommand == NetMsgType::BLOCK && !fImporting && !fReindex) 
    {
        CBlock block;
        vRecv >> block;
        CInv inv(MSG_BLOCK, block.GetHash());
        LogPrint("net", "received block %s peer=%d\n", inv.hash.ToString(), pfrom->id);
        pfrom->AddInventoryKnown(inv);
        CValidationState state;
        
        
        
        
        bool forceProcessing = pfrom->fWhitelisted && !IsInitialBlockDownload();
        ProcessNewBlock(state, chainparams, pfrom, &block, forceProcessing, NULL);
        int nDoS;
        if (state.IsInvalid(nDoS)) {
            assert (state.GetRejectCode() < REJECT_INTERNAL); 
            pfrom->PushMessage(NetMsgType::REJECT, strCommand, (unsigned char)state.GetRejectCode(),
                               state.GetRejectReason().substr(0, MAX_REJECT_MESSAGE_LENGTH), inv.hash);
            if (nDoS > 0) {
                LOCK(cs_main);
                Misbehaving(pfrom->GetId(), nDoS);
            }
        }