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`

LimitMempoolSize(mempool, GetArg("-maxmempool", DEFAULT_MAX_MEMPOOL_SIZE) * 1000000, GetArg("-mempoolexpiry", DEFAULT_MEMPOOL_EXPIRY) * 60 * 60);
    }
    mempool.check(pcoinsTip);
    
    if (fInvalidFound)
        CheckForkWarningConditionsOnNewFork(vpindexToConnect.back());
    else
        CheckForkWarningConditions();
    return true;
}
/**
 * Make the best chain active, in multiple steps. The result is either failure
 * or an activated best chain. pblock is either NULL or a pointer to a block
 * that is already loaded (to avoid loading it again from disk).
 */
bool ActivateBestChain(CValidationState &state, const CChainParams& chainparams, const CBlock *pblock) {
    CBlockIndex *pindexMostWork = NULL;
    do {
        boost::this_thread::interruption_point();
        CBlockIndex *pindexNewTip = NULL;
        const CBlockIndex *pindexFork;
        bool fInitialDownload;
        {
            LOCK(cs_main);
            CBlockIndex *pindexOldTip = chainActive.Tip();
            pindexMostWork = FindMostWorkChain();
            
            if (pindexMostWork == NULL || pindexMostWork == chainActive.Tip())
                return true;
            if (!ActivateBestChainStep(state, chainparams, pindexMostWork, pblock && pblock->GetHash() == pindexMostWork->GetBlockHash() ? pblock : NULL))