diff --git a/src/httpserver.cpp b/src/httpserver.cpp
--- a/src/httpserver.cpp
+++ b/src/httpserver.cpp
@@ -466,6 +466,8 @@
     }
     if (eventBase) {
         LogPrint(BCLog::HTTP, "Waiting for HTTP event thread to exit\n");
+        // Exit the event loop as soon as there are no active events.
+        event_base_loopexit(eventBase, nullptr);
         // Give event loop a few seconds to exit (to send back last RPC
         // responses), then break it. Before this was solved with
         // event_base_loopexit, but that didn't work as expected in at least