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`

if (nodestate->nBlocksInFlight >= MAX_BLOCKS_IN_TRANSIT_PER_PEER) {
                        
                        break;
                    }
                    vGetData.push_back(CInv(MSG_BLOCK, pindex->GetBlockHash()));
                    MarkBlockAsInFlight(pfrom->GetId(), pindex->GetBlockHash(), chainparams.GetConsensus(), pindex);
                    LogPrint("net", "Requesting block %s from  peer=%d\n",
                            pindex->GetBlockHash().ToString(), pfrom->id);
                }
                if (vGetData.size() > 1) {
                    LogPrint("net", "Downloading blocks toward %s (%d) via headers direct fetch\n",
                            pindexLast->GetBlockHash().ToString(), pindexLast->nHeight);
                }
                if (vGetData.size() > 0) {