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`

LOCK(csFreeLimiter);
            
            dFreeCount *= pow(1.0 - 1.0/600.0, (double)(nNow - nLastTime));
            nLastTime = nNow;
            
            
            if (dFreeCount + nSize >= GetArg("-limitfreerelay", DEFAULT_LIMITFREERELAY) * 10 * 1000)
                return state.DoS(0, false, REJECT_INSUFFICIENTFEE, "rate limited free transaction");
            LogPrint("mempool", "Rate limit dFreeCount: %g => %g\n", dFreeCount, dFreeCount+nSize);
            dFreeCount += nSize;
        }
        if (nAbsurdFee && nFees > nAbsurdFee)
            return state.Invalid(false,
                REJECT_HIGHFEE, "absurdly-high-fee",
                strprintf("%d > %d", nFees, nAbsurdFee));
        
        CTxMemPool::setEntries setAncestors;
        size_t nLimitAncestors = GetArg("-limitancestorcount", DEFAULT_ANCESTOR_LIMIT);
        size_t nLimitAncestorSize = GetArg("-limitancestorsize", DEFAULT_ANCESTOR_SIZE_LIMIT)*1000;
        size_t nLimitDescendants = GetArg("-limitdescendantcount", DEFAULT_DESCENDANT_LIMIT);
        size_t nLimitDescendantSize = GetArg("-limitdescendantsize", DEFAULT_DESCENDANT_SIZE_LIMIT)*1000;
        std::string errString;
        if (!pool.CalculateMemPoolAncestors(entry, setAncestors, nLimitAncestors, nLimitAncestorSize, nLimitDescendants, nLimitDescendantSize, errString)) {
            return state.DoS(0, false, REJECT_NONSTANDARD, "too-long-mempool-chain", false, errString);
        }
        
        
        
        
        BOOST_FOREACH(CTxMemPool::txiter ancestorIt, setAncestors)